Weekly Report - 16 October 2014 (WR-14-41)

Dominican President Danilo Medina has moved swiftly to dismiss his health minister, Freddy Hidalgo, in the midst of a scandal at a children’s hospital in Santo Domingo. There was a public outcry in the Dominican Republic after the national daily Listín Diario revealed that 11 children had died in the Robert Reid Cabral children’s hospital in the country’s capital in the space of three days between 3 and 5 October. The hospital’s director, Rosa Nieves, was also fired.

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