An innovative medical project, focused on specialized and general health services, but with an emphasis on three highly sensitive medical areas in the Dominican Republic, such as mental health, geriatrics and substance abuse (Détox), has been conceived by a group of Dominican doctors and businessmen.
The Specialized Treatment Center (CETRATE), with a capacity of 250 beds and 94 consulting rooms, plans to begin to rise in the coming weeks, in an area of 202 thousand square meters for development and expansion. It will be located on the Duarte Highway, in El Pinito, La Vega.
Incidence
Its area of influence will be the 14 provinces of the northern region of the country, where it is estimated that there is a deficit of 5,000 hospital beds.
It is also conceived as a reference center for health tourism, so its design meets the requirements established by the Joint Commission International, with the purpose of operating under that certification.
The details of the new project were offered by doctor Rafael Estévez Reyes and businessman Guillermo Molina, members of the group of investors of the new health establishment, during a visit to the director of Listín Diario, Miguel Franjul, who was informed that they already have all permits required to start construction.
Novelty
They explained that the investment of the new project will be 120 million dollars with national and international financing and that it will be a general hospital with special characteristics focused on geriatrics, mental health and addictions.
It will have a hotel with 115 rooms, a university campus and a residence for the elderly.
They explained that its location, between the provinces of La Vega and Santiago, 20 minutes from the Cibao airport, responds to feasibility studies prepared with great criteria and that the completion of the work is scheduled for 2025, with the contribution of 1,300 direct jobs. .
It will be directed by Dr. Bolívar Pascual, a doctor with many years of experience in specialized care in the United States, who is one of its founders, along with Leonardo Espinal Pérez, Pablo Franklin Molina Batista, Imaran Nawaz Muhammad and Guillermo Molina.
The building will be a 10-story, four-level professional tower for internment, which, they assured, was designed with the patient’s comfort in mind and its correlation with the environment, which includes routes of fruit trees and vegetation.
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Change.
“With this concept we seek to change the way of seeing health in the Dominican Republic,” said Molina, stating that they are not betting on the disappearance of existing small health centers, but rather on strengthening them.
Heliport.
He said that it will have a heliport and 420 parking units in the first stage and that it is an innovative and visionary response to the lack of organized, efficient and inclusive health structures in the country.