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Thursday, September 29, 2005
Former mayor voices alarm on nurses decline
By Lizanilla J. Amarga
FORMER mayor Pablo Magtajas voiced alarmed at how the number of doctors and nurses at the J.R. Borja Memorial City Hospital has declined to a handful.
"I think we only have around three doctors left...the city hospital has really been not taken care of," he said in the dialect.
Magtajas even commented on how the city hospital now lacks medical supplies and equipment to treat its patients.
Magtajas also laments how the number of nurses at the J.R. Borja City Memorial Hospital has also dwindled.
He said the ones hired during his time are has left the hospital together with the doctors because of its low salary rates.
The former mayor recounted how during his time he has always taken cared of the hospital and made sure all its staff is filled and its medical supplies and equipment are bought particularly those state of the technology ones.
"We even bought out some new medical equipment in my time but I am not sure if it is really being used considering that there are now just a few doctors left manning the hospital," he said.
Magtajas' predecessor Mayor Vicente Emano has earlier vowed to institute upgrading in all aspects of the City Hospital named after former Cagayan de Oro mayor Justiano Borja.
He said when interviewed by this paper before the May 10, 2004 elections that his topmost priority would be the City Hospital.
But Emano recently apologized that he would be breaking his promise.
He said he would not be able to pour in any more of his 20 percent Development Fund to the City Hospital as it has been used as counterpart funds for the Tulay ng Pangulo (the President's Bridges) program.
"But next year I promise to pour out funds for our City Hospital," he said.
The Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) hospital administrator Dr. Evelyn Clarete has in several occasions earlier complained that majority of its center's patients are from Cagayan de Oro City.
This despite how Cagayan de Oro city has its own public hospital and that NMMC, the primary regional hospital in Region 10, should be catering to patients from Misamis Oriental and other provinces in Region 10.
(September 29, 2005 issue)
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