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The National Association of Private Clinics and Hospitals (Andeclip) assured this Monday that it is the fourth sector in the country in terms of job creation and requested the National Congress to include it in the National Council of Social Security.
The president of Andeclip, Rafael Mena, stated that the majority of affiliated centers are closing due to the obstacles that, according to him, the current health system imposes.
He considered that private health centers offer services to 48% of the population and the health risk administrators (ARS), entities authorized to manage the risk of the provision of the Basic Health Plan, take months to pay the doctors for their services.
Mena and other Andeclip executives met today with the bicameral commission studying the modification of Law 87-01.
Representative Rafael Castillo, who chairs the commission, and the vice president, Senator and former Minister of Public Health, Daniel Rivera, said they will continue to convene different sectors in order to achieve this "necessary" reform, the hemicircle reported in a note.
Meanwhile, Dr. Severo Mercedes, vice president of Andeclip, proposed the creation of a single medical history or record that includes all actors in the health system, such as service providers, pension funds (AFPs), and private health centers, among others.
On his part, Representative Castillo maintained that said commission is not oblivious to what is happening in the Dominican health system and said that he will continue to convene entities, in order to achieve the modification of that "important" Law, which creates the Dominican Social Security System.
