Constanza community members are assisted during a health operation carried out by Supérate, Fundación Rica and SNS. Photo: External source
THE NEW DIARY, SANTO DOMINGO. – The government social protection program Supérate, in alliance with the National Health Service and with the support of Fundación Rica and Sanar una Nación, carried out a medical operation in Constanza, through which 1,140 people were impacted.
During the health day, in which care was provided in some 25 medical specialties, men, women and minors also participated in talks on preventive health, nutrition and self-care.
Community health care doctor from Constanza during a medical operation by Supérate, SNS and Fundación Rica. Photo: External source
The event, which took place at the Padre Fantino school from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., the community members received care from specialists in general medicine, geriatrics, pediatrics, dentistry, telemedicine, breast and prostate cancer screening, and pediatric nutrition, among others. Vaccines against hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, polio, and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) were also provided.
The residents of Constanza who participated in the medical operation received medicines, which were coordinated with the local council and its mayor Francisco Marte, “with the delivery of medicines we want the people of Constanza to be assured of the continuity of medical treatments.”
Meanwhile, the Director of Articulation of Supérate, Miriam Batista, highlighted that the objective of the activity is to bring basic health services to remote communities and impact their residents, while collaborating with allied entities for the delivery of medicines.
Representatives of the institutions and companies that carried out the medical operation were the director of Articulation of Supérate, Miriam Batista; the Executive Director of Fundación Rica, Wenceslao Soto; the Health Advisor of Fundación Rica, Carmen Brache; the director of Sanar una Nación, Tim Tucelli, and the supervisor of Medical Operations for the SNS, Dr. Katherine Rodríguez, among others.
