{"id":501516,"date":"2026-03-04T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/with-370-transplants-in-a-year-they-boost-corneal-banks-in-santiago-and-santo-domingo\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:09:16","slug":"with-370-transplants-in-a-year-they-boost-corneal-banks-in-santiago-and-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/with-370-transplants-in-a-year-they-boost-corneal-banks-in-santiago-and-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"With 370 transplants in a year, they boost corneal banks in Santiago and Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.\u2013 Faced with the increase in demand for corneal transplants in the Dominican Republic, health authorities announced the equipping of two donation banks that would operate at the Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Cabral y B\u00e1ez Regional University Hospital and at the Cardio-Neuro Ophthalmological and Transplant Center (CECANOT).\n\nThe information was provided by Dr. Jos\u00e9 Juan Castillos Almonte, director of the National Transplant Coordination Institute (INCORT), who explained that only in 2025, 370 corneal transplants were performed in the country.\n\nOf that total, approximately 360 corneas were acquired abroad, at an estimated cost of $2,000 each, which represents a significant economic investment for the system and for the patients.\n\n\n

Equipment in operation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nCastillos Almonte indicated that the technical and structural needs for the operation of both banks have already been identified. He recalled that in the past CECANOT had a cornea bank and that it currently requires less equipment thanks to recent contributions.\n\nIn that sense, he highlighted the contribution of Club 20-30, an entity that made a donation to strengthen the CECANOT’s cornea bank.\n\n\n

You can also read: Dominican Republic and Argentina sign agreements for transplants in children | De \u00daltimo Minuto | Dominican Republic News<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nMeanwhile, the center that performs the most transplants in the country is the Centro Cristiano de Servicios M\u00e9dicos (Los Americanos), located in Los Alcarrizos, along with another private center in the National District.\n\n\n

Call to create a culture of donation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nAuthorities reiterated that one of the main challenges remains the scarce culture of organ and tissue donation in the Dominican population.\n\nThe director of INCORT explained that corneas \u2014transparent tissue located at the front of the eye\u2014 can be donated after death and allow other people to regain their sight.\n\nFinally, he called on the country’s ophthalmologists to support the strengthening of the Cornea Bank and to actively promote citizen education and awareness, with a view to reducing dependence on imported tissue and expanding access to eye transplants in the national<\/a> territory.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.\u2013 Faced with the increase in demand for corneal transplants in the Dominican Republic, health authorities announced the equipping of two donation banks that would operate at the Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Cabral y B\u00e1ez Regional University Hospital and at the Cardio-Neuro Ophthalmological and Transplant Center (CECANOT). The information was provided by Dr. Jos\u00e9 Juan Castillos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"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":[43445],"class_list":["post-501516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-transplants"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26sY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501516","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=501516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}