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Sunday, October 22, 2006 (Philippines)

Jonkie Ouano, the Mandaue City mayor’s son, dabs a coat of paint on the roof of Vicente Valle’s house in Paradise Island. The houses and shanties are visible from the Mactan-Mandaue Bridge.(Sun.star photo/Allan Cuizon) THE aborted takeover of some services of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) is giving the Cebu Provincial Government more time to focus its attention on Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s offer of the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC). While the audit on the VSMMC will no longer push through, after the health department’s withdrawal of its offer, a similar Capitol review on the CCMC continues. If in case the Province decides to accept Osmeña’s offer, the CCMC has to accept referrals of patients from district hospitals. Under the current set-up, patients from the province are referred to the VSMMC. [full story]