Treatment of burn patients exceeds the RD$ 40,000 per day

Specialized care from a burned patient costs about 40 thousand dollars per day, while the cost of the díacama of each critically ill patient who is entered in the unit of burned Pearl d. Ort, of the health city of the Luis Eduardo Aybar, is about 30 thousand dollars.

This was revealed its director, Enrique José Jiménez Then, who emphasized the importance of prevention and population to adopt the measures recommended to avoid accidents that lead to Burns.

He explained that only the external of the forearm of a patient burn healing costs about 2,000 pesos.

"The día-cama our is currently 30 thousand pesos, that includes the patient is monitored, the use of fans, priest of the day, food, cost of the phone and electricity incumbent, spending of payment to the doctors, if that is added to every day in drug treatment, a patient our consumes each day approximately 40,000 pesos, less consumption has of the" u000a"admitted", pointed out.

He said that despite the high costs that unit not cobra share of patients and recovery only in the external cure procedure calls a small contribution.

The unit specializing in the care of adult patients burned in critical conditions, PCP every year an average of 290 patients, and serves on an outpatient basis approximately 3,500 patients. In Dominican Republic suffer burns due to different causes an average of 30,000 people to the year

Accidents home
50 per cent of entrants in the Center are burned by flame or fire, and 35 percent for electricity, being Dominican Republic the only country in the world that reported Burns by theft of electricity.

Between 10 to 15 percent of the burned is by accidents in the home

On the subject, the Dominican Corporation of State electric companies (CDEEE) deplored the high numbers of burns that are u000arecorded in the country fruit of illegal electricity connections, and urged the population to regularize its electric service in a thorough way to ensure the safety of all citizens and reduce the numbers of such tragic accidents that plagued the family Dominican.

Warned of the danger of death representing illegal connections in distribution lines and inadequate management of networks in the interior of the houses or commercial establishments.

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Burns per fraud electric
11% of the TOTAL
"electric fraud is a crime against the country and an attack on human life." "It is regrettable that China, with a geographical area and population significantly older, is below us to just 11% in Burns for electricity," said the Agency.

Also asked periodically check electrical installations within households, change devices u000aobsolete, disconnect those that are not used frequently and avoid several appliances in a same socket connection to prevent short circuits, overload or fire.

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