During Luis Fortuño’s government, the then Secretary of Health signed the 544-2004 Regulation from the Department of Health. In said Regulation, which defined and created the trauma centers, the possible compensation to medical malpractice victims was limited to only $75,000. The terrible thing of this…
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES REPORT TO ELIMINATE THE $75,000 LIMIT IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASES
Through its president, the Honorable Representative Lydia Méndez Silva, the House of Representatives Health Commission, issued a report recommending the approval of the P. of the C. 193, which intends to amend the 544 statute of 2004 that created the Department of Health’s 8131 Regulation.…
As discussed some time ago, the past Secretary of Health, Dr. Lorenzo González, administratively amended the Regulation 8131 (trauma centers certification) with the only purpose of unjustly favoring doctors and hospitals by limiting the maximum compensation of $75,000 for the damages sustained by any medical…
On February 9, 2013, El Nuevo Día published that “finally” Puerto Rico’s government opened the facilities of the new Trauma Center of Centro Médico. This facility, created by Aníbal Acevedo Vilá’s administration, was ready since 2009, but was empty and not in use. Governor Alejandro…
During the public hearings celebrated by the House of Representatives, regarding the proposed amendment of eliminating the $75,000 limit of the Department of Health’s Regulation 8131, Dr. Eduardo Ibarra, president of the College of Physicians-Surgeons of Puerto Rico, testified. During his speech, Dr. Ibarra was…
Today, I want to share with the reader that in the past months, I have noticed a considerable increase in the consultation of cases, where the medical negligence has been of such magnitude, that you do not need to be a doctor to notice it.…