The first hotel focused on health tourism in the DR opens in Santiago
Abinader and Collado lead the inauguration of the new facility
With the presence of President Luis Abinader and the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Hospital of Santiago opened the doors of the Homs Health and Wellness Center, the first health tourism hotel in the country.
“Santiago’s strength is that entrepreneurs unite to go beyond the search for maximizing profits, and in the end that vicious circle is what leads a city to develop,” said Abinader.
He indicated that “within a month we will have the critical route, the plan to develop health tourism in the Dominican Republic, which I see as one of the most important new ventures and a sector that will grow”.
The center will be managed under the Marriott International franchise, the hotel is a Residence Inn, the project has 51,000 m² of construction distributed in two buildings, one of thirteen levels with 167 consulting rooms with state-of-the-art equipment, private waiting rooms, sample taking area and lactation rooms on each level. As well as areas for treatment in specialties, ophthalmology, cardiology and a biomedical research laboratory.
Also, centers specialized in pathologies whose treatments are highly demanded in health tourism, such as: dentistry, anti-aging and aesthetic medicine, sleep unit, microbiota study, metabolic surgery, among others.
The second building has ten levels to offer lodging services with accommodation facilities for family members and professionals traveling from abroad to perform procedures in the hospital, and for the general public visiting the city.
It also has a modern convention center with capacity for 426 people seated and 500 standing; with an innovative retractable seating system that allows for the automatic deployment and removal of chairs, making it the ideal space for telemedicine, conferences, training activities, congresses and social events; and auxiliary meeting rooms, 700 parking spaces, 18 elevators and a loading dock.
In that sense, Rafael Sánchez Español, president of the Board of Directors of Homs, said that, “this achievement is the result of our innovative spirit, which has positioned us as leaders in robotic surgery in the country, main protagonist of health tourism in the northern zone and now as pioneers in having a state-of-the-art center that represents a long-term commitment, stimulating economic growth, job creation and promoting the development of local skills with the new vision of a tourist Santiago”.
“These advances are a clear reflection of how our nation is positioning itself in health tourism at the international level, being leaders in health tourism in the Caribbean,” said Victor Atallah, Minister of Public Health.
According to Listín Diario, El Homs has the International Health Services Accreditation Canada (ACI) and is a founding member of the Dominican Health Tourism Association (ADTS).
