BAUKO, Mountain Province -- The Luis Hora
Memorial Regional Hospital here, will be upgraded without undergoing rigorous
legislative congressional approval.
This was learned
during consultation of congressmen with Dr. Paulyn Jean B. Rossell - Ubial,
Secretary of the Department of Health Tuesday at the Batasan Complex in Quezon
City.
Rep. Maximo Dalog
submitted the request for facilities and infrastructure development projects of
the hospital to the secretary in coordination with Dr. Glenn Matthew Baggao,
hospital head.
He informed the
secretary he filed a House Bill to increase the bed capacity from 100 beds to
200 beds citing the need as the patients have been steadily increasing at the
hospital.
Data gathered
indicated a comparative increase in the bed occupancy from 59.05% in 2014,
79.68% in 2015, and 99.69% in the first half of 2016.
Outpatient department
reported that there were 23,888 patients in 2014, 34,077 patients in 2016, and
21,746 patients from January to June 2016.
Secretary Ubial, after
hearing the common sentiments of congressmen for upgrading of hospitals,
initiated the move for the passing of a law that confers automatic authority
for the DOH to upgrade hospitals as needed.
The congressmen lauded
the secretary for her initiative, although a congressman claimed that the DOH
can do it administratively.
However, the consensus
is for the passage of a law as requested.
Ubial was invited to
visit LHMRH in the future.
She said that she
plans to visit all regional hospitals before the end of year 2017.
Meanwhile,
notwithstanding request for funds, it was gathered that the DOH has already
provided under the Department’s HFEP budget a total of P77,672,000.00 for
buildings and equipment commensurate for the upgrading of the hospital from
level 2 to level 3.
Dalog cited need to
upgrade the regional hospital as it now hosts patients not only from the
province but also from other provinces in the region and the nearby Ilocos
provinces.
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