President Luis Abinader visited the Luis Eduardo Aybar Health City on 30 September 2025 to inaugurate the last remaining hospital included in the mega health complex. The capital city medical city center was begun in 2012 during the government of former President Danilo Medina with an announced budget of RD$4 billion. According to the Minister of Housing and Edifications, Carlos Bonilla, the total investment in the Health City amounted to RD$16 billion. The surgery building, the last to be completed in the mega health city, was named to honor neurosurgeon Jose Joaquin Puello who took on the responsibility to complete the project left half way by the past administration. Puello continues to diret the Luis Eduardo Aybar Health City complex.