Thursday, July 26, 2007 DOH: DMC as corporate enterprise to benefit poor By Carlo P. Mallo
DEPARTMENT of Health (DOH)-Southern Mindanao Director Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial assured the public that the plan of Davao Medical Center (DMC) to be run as a corporate venture will not ease out its indigent patients. In fact, this will be more beneficial.
DMC has been reported to be gearing into turning itself into a self-sustaining medical facility that would cater to both indigent and paying clients.
Ubial believes that the move will be good for the medical facility, the best so far in Mindanao.
"It doesn't mean that the hospital would only cater to the paying patients, by turning corporate, DMC would be able to be self-sustaining by receiving payments from those clients who are not indigent," Ubial said.
She further elaborated that the hospital, unlike most public hospitals, will no longer solely depend on the funding being provided by the National Government.
"We must not take it in a negative manner," Ubial added, "It is not a private corporation wherein the profits would go to the pockets of the board of directors and other officials."
Rather, she said, the profit will be used to sustain the services that the hospital has for its indigent patients.
With this set-up, Ubial asserted that more indigent patients will benefit because apart form the funds coming from the national budget, DMC can also generate its own funds from its paying clientele.
