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Santo Domingo.- Within the framework of the knowledge of the request for a coercive measure for the so-called Senasa case, the defense of the former director of the National Health Insurance (Senasa), Santiago Hazim, requested the court to apply "special considerations" due to his state of health, alleging that he suffers from multiple sclerosis.
The request was presented before the Permanent Attention Court of the National District, presided over by Judge Rigoberto Sena, through a medical certificate filed by lawyer Miguel Valerio and signed by neurologist Luis A. Taveras Guzmán.You may be interested in: http://Defensa de Cinty Acosta afirma que fue extorsionada por Santiago Hazim
According to the document, Hazim, 59 years old, has been a patient of the specialist since 2011 and has a medical history that includes cardiac arrhythmias and the diagnosis of a severe immunological disease which, after clinical and imaging studies by magnetic resonance imaging of the skull and spinal cord, was identified as multiple sclerosis. The medical report indicates that the diagnosis was subsequently confirmed in a hospital in the United States, where Hazim is being treated with Ocrelizumab (Ocrevus), a medication that must be administered twice a year in a hospital in New York. The neurologist explained that multiple sclerosis is a condition that evolves in episodes, which can intensify when the patient is subjected to high levels of tension or stress. In that sense, the defense argued that a preventive detention measure could worsen their client's health condition and requested house arrest. They also request that he not be prevented from leaving the country, in order to allow him to travel to the United States to continue his specialized treatment.
