Guv renews call for hospital personnel to help poor

ILOILO. Governor Arthur Defensor Sr., Provincial Administrator Raul Banias, and Dr. Gerard Joel Abonado, chief of Ramon Duremdes District Hospital, lead the ribbon cutting ceremony during the inauguration of the hospital’s new Administration Building on May 21, 2018. (Contributed photo)
ILOILO. Governor Arthur Defensor Sr., Provincial Administrator Raul Banias, and Dr. Gerard Joel Abonado, chief of Ramon Duremdes District Hospital, lead the ribbon cutting ceremony during the inauguration of the hospital’s new Administration Building on May 21, 2018. (Contributed photo)

GOVERNOR Arthur Defensor Sr. reiterated his call to all the personnel of the 12 Provincial Government-run hospitals to always give immediate attention to the needs of poor patients.

Defensor made the call during his speech at the inauguration of the new Administrative Building of Ramon D. Duremdes District Hospital in Dumangas, Iloilo, on May 21.

Defensor recalled his promise upon his return to the Capitol in 2010 to make all the Provincial Government-run hospitals “real hospitals for the poor.”

“We have invested millions of pesos to upgrade all our hospitals... its facilities and its services, so that our people need not go to Iloilo City for their medical needs,” Defensor said.

He reminded the hospital personnel to attend to the needs of the patients, especially the poor.

“I don’t mind if our hospitals would not earn as long as it serves the poor,” Defensor said.

The governor turned over on May 21 the new Administration Building and other hospital facilities of the Ramon D. Duremdes District Hospital in Dumangas.

The projects amounted to a total of P24.4 million.

Provincial Administrator Raul Banias, who is concurrent chief of the Hospital Management Office (HMO), said another P31-million facility improvement is slated for implementation and he assured that the hospital upgrading will be completed before Defensor’s term ends in June 2019.

Earlier, Banias said the Province invested about P1.6 billion for the upgrading of all the hospitals with the help of the Department of Health, PhilHealth and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica).

He said during the last two years of the Defensor administration, around P600 million would be allotted for additional hospital projects, including the hiring of more personnel. (PR)

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