Ministry of Health: our priority is to counter and control COVID-19
Santo Domingo.- Dr. Plutarco Arias, new Minister of Public Health guaranteed that his efforts will be concentrated mainly on reinforcing plans and strategies in order to control the spread of COVID-19, as one of the urgent issues of the government headed by Luis Abinader.
Arias, along with the outgoing minister Dr. Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas, visited various areas together with a small delegation of his close collaborators, among them Dr. Ivelisse Acosta, Vice Minister of Collective Health.
He indicated that he will assume the guidelines of President Luis Abinader by heart and that he will act in a “forceful” manner to face the health situation generated by COVID -19.
In that order, he said that he will implement a plan for the detection, isolation, tracking, and treatment of infected persons on an unprecedented scale and will guarantee the entire population access to the vaccine against the virus as soon as it is available.
“We understand that we are assuming this position with an emergency health situation and we know that our priority is to guarantee the health of the population, therefore, together with our team, we will work to strengthen the plans and destroy, we will continue the aspects that have paid off. But the priority is to control the disease so that we can dedicate ourselves to other health issues that require attention”, he explained.
He stressed his awareness of the serious health issues that the country faces and therefore has surrounded himself by a well-qualified technical team.
He thanked Dr. Sanchez Cardenas for the reception and the explanations offered on all the processes that are developed in the Ministry of Public Health. Cardenas, on his side, showed his availability to continue collaborating in the improvement of the Health System.
Plans and programs
The Minister of Health reported that in the coming days he will inform the population about the plans and programs that they will assume in all areas, but essentially the measures to counter COVID-19.