UOne of the tasks of the newly created Ministry of Housing will be to build a trauma network and an oncology network in the country, a project that is already in the design phase and which aims to person has an accident in any part of the country can reach in less than an hour these hospitals or first aid units.
The announcement was made during the Listín Breakfast, which was attended by the Minister of Housing, Habitat and Buildings, Carlos Bonilla Sánchez, who stated that the oncology units will also be very helpful for those who live in provinces where there are no such hospitals and they have to go far to continue their chemotherapy treatment.
“This is an important plan we are currently designing. Among trauma units and hospitals are some 15,” Bonilla Sanchez said in offering his first interview as Minister of Housing.
The official, who in this management acted as director of the National Housing Institute (INVI), assured that the trauma and oncology units will be small because in this place people will be stabilized. These will be located in hospitals in some villages, while in places where there are no medical centers, they must be built from scratch.
To contribute to the development of this project, it has been stipulated that the National Health Service (SNS) contemplate an ambulance network for these sites.
“When something as complicated as the pandemic happens, you realize the level of deficiency you have in terms of hospital infrastructure and we realized all this,” said Bonilla Sánchez.
repair
Although this ministry will be in charge of a project called “My Housing”, where the Dominican Government will subsidize up to 60% of households to those who want to buy a house and the beneficiary will put the remaining 40%, for people who cannot pay a monthly sum of a loan or an initial, their residences will be repaired.
“These people are given the place where they live in a dignified way. We do not believe in giving away homes of these new 100% because it is shown that people do not appreciate housing, it must cost something. “When it comes to living in a community, you have to know how to do it and if you’re the best person, you don’t want to learn how to live in a community,” said Bonilla Sánchez.
For the owner of Housing, Habitat and Buildings, the programs in this aspect that the entity will have will be massive, and for people who are reluctant to leave their area, they understand that by making quality urbanizations, people move .
He stressed that the Ministry of Housing will have a social approach with a huge impact on changing the lives of an entire family.
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Life change
For the owner of Housing, Habitat and Buildings, the programs in this aspect that the entity will have will be massive, and for people who are reluctant to leave their area, they understand that by making quality urbanizations, people move .
“You are given an option to live in a new house with a title, which you can leave to your family, which is also very important versus your living in a disorganized way, without green areas, without the space that you have to have and paying almost the same for rent “, stated Bonilla Sánchez.
The official was accompanied by Deputy Ministers Danny Santos Compres and Ney García.