{"id":500411,"date":"2026-02-18T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/public-health-closes-medical-center-linked-to-doctor-accused-of-abuse-in-sfm\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:23:22","slug":"public-health-closes-medical-center-linked-to-doctor-accused-of-abuse-in-sfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/public-health-closes-medical-center-linked-to-doctor-accused-of-abuse-in-sfm\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health closes medical center linked to doctor accused of abuse in SFM"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds<\/strong> .- The <strong>Ministry of Public Health<\/strong> ordered the closure of the <strong>Centro Galeno Diagn\u00f3stico Las Gu\u00e1ranas (Cegadig),<\/strong> owned by the doctor Wilbert Polanco Sanz, accused of sexual abuse in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds.\n\nAccording to information released by the Agenda 56 portal, the professional not only offered consultations as a general practitioner, but also served as the medical director of the establishment.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/detienen-medico-acusado-de-abuso\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"612747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doctor arrested in Las Gu\u00e1ranas accused of sexually abusing a Haitian patient<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe closure decision is based on several aspects, including the administrative responsibility derived from its management function, which implies evaluating possible failures in supervision and in the application of ethical protocols within the center.\n\nThe arrest of Polanco Sanz occurred after the complaint of a 20-year-old woman, who claimed to have been abused during the performance of a sonography.\n\nAlso, prosecutor Sandra Sierra Dif\u00f3 confirmed that at least three previous complaints for similar acts attributed to the same professional are in the files of the Public Ministry.\n\nAuthorities continue with the corresponding investigations as the judicial process progresses.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds .- The Ministry of Public Health ordered the closure of the Centro Galeno Diagn\u00f3stico Las Gu\u00e1ranas (Cegadig), owned by the doctor Wilbert Polanco Sanz, accused of sexual abuse in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds. According to information released by the Agenda 56 portal, the professional not only offered consultations as a general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[41054,42130],"class_list":["post-500411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-public-health","tag-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26b9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500411","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}