It suggests Fund to assist patients with trauma

Worried about bad management which often receive patients who suffer from traffic accidents, traumatological hospital Ney Arias Lora director proposes a mechanism that assigns hospitals of trauma of the country a weight of each vehicle to pay tolls on motorways, and instead they establish specialized services in most vulnerable highway points.

Félix Hernández, medical director of the Center, understanding that this would ensure that the patient is picked up by specialized and staff attended to in the vicinity of the place where the accident, which would reduce medical complications and costs. Confesses he has expressed this proposal on several occasions to Dominican legislators, but that so far no one her has assumed.

Indicates that traffic accidents are an epidemic in the country which cause more deaths than cholera, tuberculosis and other diseases, and it is urgent to invest in medicine u000apre-hospital, with the establishment of assistance on roads with ambulances and paramedics in places vulnerable.

Hernández referred to the issue during a visit that yesterday extended to the director of LISTÍN DIARIO, Miguel Franjul, which revealed that every day the Ney Arias Lora hospital serves an average of 600 patients in consultation and emergency, mostly of the Santo Domingo province.

The meeting was attended also the Deputy Director of this newspaper, Fabio Cabral, and responsible for communications from the hospital, Ada Guzmán. He said that they could participate in that project of specialized services even the administering of health and the Superintendency of insurance risks. Understands that other needs that must fill in the country on a priority basis is the opening of hospitals specializing in orthopedic surgery in the southern regions and, to cover the four regions, which would help much decongest the centers of the capital.

Stressed that the u000a70 percent of patients who come to the facility that directs is road traffic, and 70 percent is motorcyclists.

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