Pediatric Emergency Room for Taiwan Hospital in Azua province

Pediatric Emergency Room for Taiwan Hospital in Azua province
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 10/12/2011

The provision of this and other Pediatric Emergency Rooms aims to reduce child mortality and supply adequate health services for children of low-income families.

First Lady Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández today inaugurated a Pediatric Emergency Room in the Taiwan 19 de Marzo Hospital of this province, built for the sum of DR$691,927.55, …

First Lady Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández today inaugurated a Pediatric Emergency Room in the Taiwan 19 de Marzo Hospital of this province, built for the sum of DR$691,927.55, where children of the southern region will receive adequate quality health care in the hands of pediatric specialists.

With the construction of these Pediatric Emergency Rooms throughout the country, the First Lady hopes to reduce child mortality and provide adequate health care services for children of low-income families; children will receive personalized quality care at these centers where pediatric doctors and nurses are specially trained to work with children.

Addressing those present, Dr. Cedeño de Fernández said that these emergency rooms are designed, built and equipped to give children special services that differ from services for adults, when they suffer an unexpected situation that endangers their wellbeing.

“As a mother, I know the anguish one feels when a child gets sick, an anguish that is multiplied in the case of low-income families who must endure hardships in order to get treatment in precarious conditions in unfriendly spaces, where often the body is healed but the mind is injured in witnessing scenes typical in an adult emergency,” she stated.

The First Lady assured that the twelfth emergency room will remain open in this Hospital, which bears the name of the Republic of Taiwan, a country that is acknowledged for its continuing contributions to the welfare and progress of the Dominican people and which again made possible the construction of this important work.

She emphasized that the goal is to continue building Pediatric Emergency Rooms in different parts of the country in order to bring quality health services to families so that they do not have to delay care for their children due to a lack of money or transportation, thus avoiding complications in a child’s condition and prolonging healing time.

Details of the Azua Pediatric Emergency Room

The pediatric emergency room is built in a 342 square meter space and has urgent treatment areas for up to four patients, hydration areas for two patients, nebulizing areas for four patients, dressing and suturing areas, waiting room, nurses’ lounge with bathroom, cubicles for doctors, nursing station, dormitory for doctors with bathroom, medication storeroom, bathrooms, garage for ambulances, and a garden area.

Other emergency rooms are in the Armed Forces Central Hospital, Dr. Moscoso Puello Hospital, Engombe Municipal Hospital, Dr. Ramón de Lara Military Hospital, Dr. Darío Contreras Hospital, Dr. Robert Reid Cabral Hospital, Dr. Pascasio Toribio Provincial Hospital, Salcedo Municipal Hospital, Hermanas Mirabal Provincial Hospital and in the Maternal-Child Hospital of Boca Chica, San Andrés Municipal District Hospital, Yamasá Municipal Hospital, Ricardo Limardo Hospital of Puerto Plata and the Castillo Municipal Hospital in Duarte province.