On December 15, 2014, the health authorities made the decision to close the Hospital William Morganinaugurated in 1946, to begin the construction of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Health Citya megaproject composed of 13 buildings, including a heliport, where patients would receive all the care without having to go to another facility to complete their medical studies.
This situation caused the saturation of the hospitals of the peripherywhich, during the last decade, provided medical and technical support to the thousands of patients who attended the health center located in the María Auxiliadora sector every day.
At that time, the solution was proposed to transfer the main services offered by the emblematic hospital to neighboring centers, thus explaining that the Unit of Burned Pearl F. Ort today it operates in Hospital Traumatology Ney Arias Lora and that the Pediatrics residency be brought to Hugo Mendoza Hospital.
Likewise, Medicine Internal was transferred to the hospitals Father Billini, Salvador B. Gautier and Moscoso Puello; the Maternity and Perinatology areas also to Moscoso Puello. For almost two months, Gynecology left Moscoso and returned to its original center with the launch two days ago of the Hospital Maternal and Child.
Little by little, the Aybar is recovering the pace of work as new facilities are inaugurated and services are incorporated, leaving only block C, where the Surgical Clinic will operate, which is under construction. The Minister of Housing and Buildings, Carlos Bonillasaid that it will be delivered in mid-2025 for 100% commissioning of the company’s facilities. Health City.
Likewise, they remain active Gastroenterology Center, the Cardio-Neuro-Ophthalmological and Transplant Center (Cecanot) and the Dominican-Japanese Friendship Medical Education Center (Cemadoja)also located within the Health City.
El Moscoso carried the greatest load
Due to its proximity, in the years of construction, lengthened by legal knots, the Hospital Francis Moscoso Puello carried the greatest load.
According to him Repository of Information and Statistics of Health Services (Riess)Between 2019 and November 2024, 797,194 emergencies were attended to in this health center, the largest number in a hospital in Greater Santo Domingo. In this same period, 1,070,022 were offered queries.
He is followed by Francis Vincent Castro (Boca Chica Hospital) with 510,137 emergencies and 263,217 queries. Third place was taken by Dario Contrerasaccounting for 424,707 emergencies and 552,638 queries to specialists.
It took eight years for the outpatient consultation service to be resumed in the Health City, opening with 16 specialties. In July 2022, in addition to consultations, the Imaging and Dentistry area was enabled.
Later, the Nelson Astacio laboratory and vaccine center was opened in this building. In 2022, 8,283 patients were consulted there; in 2023 it rose to 85,775 and in the first 11 months of 2024 it rose to 147,533.
Family medicine, Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Neurology and Ophthalmology are the most in demand.
