{"id":476628,"date":"2025-07-28T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/abinader-acknowledges-that-mental-health-actions-are-insufficient\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:07:24","slug":"government-acknowledges-outstanding-debt-to-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/government-acknowledges-outstanding-debt-to-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Government acknowledges outstanding debt to mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abinader says mental health actions are insufficient<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong><em>.<\/em>\u2013 During the meeting <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/xh1_w0FvNBI\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/xh1_w0FvNBI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA Semanal<\/a> with the press<\/strong>, the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, addressed the public policies that are being implemented by the government to address mental health in the country. <\/p>\n\n&#8220;More actions are needed. We have taken some actions on mental health in the country, still insufficient, but this is a very complex issue,&#8221; said Abinader, without offering further details on the initiatives in execution.\n\nWhen referring to the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/tres-meses-de-prision-preventiva-2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/tres-meses-de-prision-preventiva-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean Andr\u00e9s Pumarol<\/a>, the president explained that it was a person with access to means and treatments, which was not enough to avoid this tragedy.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/tres-meses-de-prision-preventiva-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/abinader-afirma-que-dos-millones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abinader affirms that two million have escaped poverty<\/a><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cEn ese caso en espec\u00edfico no es ni siquiera lo que pueda hacer el gobierno, es la atenci\u00f3n que tiene que estar con las familias. Los pacientes deben tomar sus medicamentos\u201d, <\/p><cite>se\u00f1al\u00f3.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nRegarding the hospital network dedicated to mental health, Abinader indicated that according to reports and statistics from the last 40 or 50 years, advances in medications have reduced the number of patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals by 70%. However, he stressed that the current challenge is to ensure that patients take their treatments properly.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abinader says mental health actions are insufficient Santo Domingo.\u2013 During the meeting LA Semanal with the press, the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, addressed the public policies that are being implemented by the government to address mental health in the country. &#8220;More actions are needed. We have taken some actions on mental health in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":476630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-476628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-luis-abinader"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZZy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Abinader-.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Abinader-.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}