Santo Domingo.- The director of the Government’s Essential Medicine Program (PROMESE) today announced the start in the next few days of two programs to benefit people affected by diabetes and blindness, as part of the expansion of services to the population.

Dr. Elena Fernandez said people who suffer from diabetes and who aren’t affiliated to a Health Risk Administrator will benefit from the program Promedia, available in the Read Cabral and Eduardo Aybar hospitals. “This program’s objective is to keep diabetes from aggravating the health of people of low income, offering medicines and equipment to be supplied completely free.”

The official, interviewed on Diario de la Mañana, said the other program to be implemented aims to prevent blindness, in which a considerable number of ophthalmologists will take part by providing their services in the hospitals Eduardo Aybar and Los Alcarrizos.

“It’s not acceptable that a person becomes blind for not having the resources to buy drops which prevent that disease. Promese will provide them free to those who need them we will sell and them at a minimum price in its 1186 Pharmacies of the People which operate nationwide,” she said.