33% of cases at Rehab Center are for traffic accidents
With 54 years in service and 1,292 employees, the Asociación Dominicana de Rehabilitación (ADR) that began offering therapy for polio today mostly serves victims of traffic accidents and gang fights. The Dominican Rehabilitation Center (ADR) in 2017 cared for 1.2 million patients. Of these 200,000 had suffered injuries in traffic accidents, said first vice president of the ADR, Celso Marranzini in a visit he made to Diario Libre accompanied by his mother, ADR founder and president Mary Perez de Marranzini. Also present during the visit was executive vice president Arturo Perez Gaviño.
Marranzini during the visit to Diario Libre lobbied for an increase in the allotment received from the government. The ADR has 33 branches located nationwide and a prosthesis workshop serving all branches. Physiatry and rehabilitation services, education for children with special needs are offered at the branches.
“To some extent I think the government has measured the impact of the support of the organization. They know that without the ADR they would have a huge problem,” he said. Nevertheless, he revealed that the ADR receives the same RD$67 million allotment since 2007. Today the annual budget of the country’s largest rehabilitation center is around RD$1 billion. The ADR makes ends meet with fund-raising activities and donations.
Source: DR1, DiarioLibre
April 10, 2018
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