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Who Will Answer for Hope Medical Center’s Debts and Lawsuits in Humacao? Not Even the Government Knows
By Jeniffer Wiscovitch Padilla , Omaya Sosa Pascual | December 23, 2025
A CPI investigation into the hospital’s sudden closure less than two years after it opened finds that serious financial problems and legal entanglements existed even before it began operating.
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Ahead of Senate Confirmation, Víctor Ramos Hires Close Associates at the Department of Health
By Jeniffer Wiscovitch Padilla , Amanda Pérez Pintado | March 24, 2025
Despite not being confirmed for the position and facing numerous corruption allegations, the nominated Secretary of Health has already hired a close group of doctors who have been publicly defending him.
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CPI Sues Puerto Rico Health Department Again to Access Public Information
By Centro de Periodismo Investigativo | December 18, 2023
San Juan – The Puerto Rico Department of Health was sued again this past Monday for not providing public information and ignoring requests for data and reports related to its response to hurricanes Irma and María, the 2020 earthquakes, and Hurricane Fiona. This is the fifth time that the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in […]
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New federal audit concludes that the Department of Health placed the lives of Puerto Ricans at risk during Hurricane María
By Eliván Martínez Mercado | September 16, 2021
The agency failed to comply with a preparedness and response protocol that it had agreed with the US Government to deal with such emergencies.
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