From 299,908 hospitalizations that the Information and Statistics Repository of the National Service of Health (Riess) indicates have been carried out during the first eight months of this year 2024, 12.49% corresponds to patients of nationality Haitian, that is, 36,170 internments in public network hospitals.
At the national level, Saint Dominic is the province what else hospitalizations records 68,249 admissions, of which 61,995 were Dominican citizens; 6,122 Haitians and 132 belonging to other nationalities that are not specified.
He is followed by National District with 38,945 internments: 33,291 patients Dominicans; 5,522 patients Haitians and 103 of other nationalities.
Santiagowith 29,810 hospitalizations of Dominicans and 5,035 of Haitian nationals complete the trio of locations with the greatest demand for internments.
In fourth place is Altagraciawith 19,420 hospitalizations to Quisqueyans and 2,788 to Haitian neighbors.
surgeries and emergencies
Likewise, the data indicates that in the first eight months of 2024, 3,407,185 were recorded services of emergency. 90.3% of the attention in these rapid response units was to patients Dominicans (3,076,765 people) and 9.37% (319,172 people) are migrants from the neighboring nation.
Regarding the realization of surgeriesuntil August, the Riess registers 304,582 procedures
The public hospitals that perform the most interventions are: DarÃo Contreras with 42,100 proceduresNey Arias Lora with 22,677; Francisco Moscoso Puello, with 19,738 surgeries and 14,360 at the Arturo Grullón Pediatric Center, in Santiago.
Births
In the case of the birthsTo date, the Riess accounts for 53,797 enlightenments. 66.4% corresponds to patients Dominican nationals (35,718) and 33.4% (17,981) to Haitian nationals. Likewise, 98 mothers of other nationalities are reported for 0.2%.
The hospital centers most frequented by parturients from the neighboring nation are: Maternity Our Lady of Altagracia with 1,867 births registered since the beginning of 2024, (289 in the month of August alone); San Lorenzo de Los Mina Hospital, with 1,591 deliveries, 269 of them in the last month; Presidente Estrella Ureña Hospital, in Santiagowith 1,556 births and the Hospital Nuestra Señora de Altagraciain the province Altagraciawith 917 enlightenmentssurpassing in the latter hospital the percentage of Dominican mothers with a proportion of 63.9% of Haitian mothers and 36.1% of native Dominican mothers.
Hospitals like Marcelino Vélez (in Herrera) and Reynaldo Almánzar (in Saint Dominic North) show a tiny population of patients haitian
Until August, only seven patients of Haitian origin (0.5%) gave birth at the Marcelino Vélez, compared to 1,544 of Dominican origin. In Reynaldo, 67 were registered births of Haitians (1.2%) of the 5,538 performed in this health center.
The repository of the National Health Service (SNS) indicates that, so far this year, 17,132,508 laboratory tests have been processed. Of them, 90.67% were carried out on Dominican patients, for a total of 15,534,288 analyzes and 1,506,193 (8.79%) on Haitian migrants.
Regarding imaging tests, the report establishes that 2,439,247 plates and sonograms have been processed: 91.42% in Dominican citizens (2,229,879 tests) and 8.26% (201,580 studies) provided to citizens from Haiti.
