# Servicio Nacional de Salud (República Dominicana)

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## TL;DR

The public body that runs the Dominican Republic's public hospitals. It runs a free programme that checks for breast, cervical and prostate cancer at ten public hospitals, including the National Cancer Institute.

## Summary

The Servicio Nacional de Salud was created on 16 July 2015 by Law 123-15 as a public body with its own legal personality, attached to the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, to run the network of regional public health services. Its Programa Detección de Cáncer de Mama, Cervicouterino y Próstata offers free laboratory tests, imaging, gynaecology and oncology consultations, biopsy and treatment where cancer is confirmed, for women aged 40 and over (breast), women aged 25 to 60 (cervix) and men aged 40 and over (prostate) who have lived for six months in a province with a participating hospital. The ten listed hospitals include INCART in the Distrito Nacional, Hospital Presidente Estrella Ureña in Santiago and Hospital Jaime Mota in Barahona. The coordinates are an approximate Santo Domingo city point.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: SNS; National Health Service, Dominican Republic
- City: Santo Domingo, DO
- Type: government
- Website: https://sns.gob.do

## Sources

- SNS: who we are (Law 123-15): https://sns.gob.do/sobre-nosotros/quienes-somos/
- SNS: breast, cervical and prostate cancer detection programme: https://sns.gob.do/servicios/programa-deteccion-de-cancer/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- terms: [National cancer screening programmes](https://onco.cc/terms/national-screening-programmes/)

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