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Feb 5, 2012 - Massive presence of people seek to treat deformities

Dozens of people with congenital deformities, cleft lip, burns, and other afflictions were evaluated for surgical operations, during a day organized by the Renacer Foundation and the Medical Aid for the Children of Latin America (Macla).The streets of the recently inaugurated Padre Billini Hospital, reconstructed and equipped by IBT Group, were filled with people seeking an evaluation from Dominican and North American doctors.The program seeks to operate more than 250 people, of which the...

Feb 2, 2012 - Padre Billini has begun operating

The president Leonel Fernandez and the Ministry of Health inaugurated the Padre Billini Hospital, founded on the 19th of June, 1879. The pioneering hospital, located in the Colonial Area, was under restoration for approximately two years. Almost completely rebuilt and reequipped, the project required an investment of 570 million pesos.The remodeling was executed by IBT Group, with financing obtained from Deutsche Bank and the Anonymous Spanish Society, within a commercial credit...

Feb 1, 2012 - Fernández inaugurates Padre Billini Hospital

The president of the republic, Doctor Leonel Fernandez, admitted this Wednesday during the inauguration of the Padre Billini Hospital feeling proud of the progress and advances in infrastructure, institutional reform, and service for users of the health system during the last five years.After inaugurating the remodeled and reequipped Padre Billini Hospital with an investment of 570 million pesos, the president said that the restructuring of the health sector is an ambitious plan executed by the...

Jan 30, 2012 - Padre Billini will open completely renovated

They finally finished the hospital!, exclaimed a patient when she saw that workers were painting the facade of the Padre Billini Hospital in the Dominican Republic, under reconstruction for more that two years and due to open this Wednesday, February 1st, 2012. The project was undertaken by IBT Group and financing provided by Deutsche Bank, Anonymous Spanish Society, within a Commercial Credit Agreement.From the roof and walls, to the floors, the infrastructure of the Padre Billini...

Jan 26, 2012 - Billini Hospital reopens in February

The remodeling and modernization of the Padre Billini Hospital will be inaugurated and put into service to the public at full capacity on February 1, 2012, after undergoing through reconstruction and equipment by IBT Group.According the a note, the Padre Billini Hospital, founded by Priest Francisco Javier Billini on the 19th of June, 1879, is an institution whose primary function is to offer quality medical services to the neediest people in the country.Although in operation, the hospital was...

Jan 2, 2012 - Market network will transform agriculture and livestock commerce

The new network of markets, which will commence operating in 2012, will transform de commercialization of agriculture and livestock products in the country. The circuit is headed by the wholesale Santo Domingo Market and is complemented by the Cristo Rey Market (completed), the Villa Consuelo Market, and the market on Duarte Avenue, on their final phase of construction.Wholesale operations at the Santo Domingo Market will reduce costs and crop losses due to spoilage by facilitating...

Dec 29, 2011 - Notable advance seen at the City of Health hospitals

The three hospitals that will complete the Charles de Gaulle City of Health are almost complete, which will provide 667 beds to the national health system. During a tour through the facilities with Bautista Rojas, the minister of public health, authorities informed that the hospitals should be in operation in August of 2012. The projects, with a cost of 125 million dollars, will strengthen the capacity of the public health system in secondary and tertiary levels of attention. ...

Dec 29, 2011 - Work advances in the Charles de Gaulle City of Health

The three health centers within the Charles de Gaulle City of Health, where the Ney Arias Lora Hospital currently operates in North Santo Domingo, could be inaugurated between April and August 2012. According to the supervisor of Public Works for the country, Luis Sifres, the three facilities, a maternity, a pediatric, and a general and specialty hospital, will add approximately 667 beds to the national health system in the Dominican Republic.The hospitals are being developed as "...