Jennifer C. Tilos
DUMAGUETE CITY, Sept. 15 (PIA) -- The four-storey central block building
inside the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH), now 51.8 percent
structurally finished, is expected to be completed on December 31 this
year, according to Governor Roel Degamo.
The P350-million
loan project intends to decongest the provincial hospital which has exceeded
its bed capacity and is spilling over with patients.
With this
facility, Degamo said health and hospital services would be provided
satisfactorily in good quality for indigent residents in the province.
NOPH services
are expected to improve since the new facility is built to
provide additional beds, patient’s rooms, and pay wards.
Degamo said the hospital
may hire additional personnel such as doctors and nurses and may also augment
some medicines needed to step up the hospital’s requirement.
Finally, the governor
appealed for partisanship to give way for the goal to provide adequate and
quality health care for the Negrenses.
For his part, Provincial
Board Member Erwin Macias is thankful that the Central Block building is
nearing completion as his father, the late governor Emilio Macias III who
was a doctor by profession, was the first to plan its construction
and initially built the pillars of the building.
In the
recent “topping ceremony”, Degamo inspected the building to
ensure not only a quake-resistant structure but also the need to fast tract the
completion of the facility.
The primary level
structure of Central Block building houses the operating rooms, intensive care
unit, while the second to third levels are the surgery, private or pay
wards, and fourth floor would be for pediatrics care. (rmn/jct/PIA7-Negros
Oriental)
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