THE Provincial Government of Negros Occidental has launched its mobile doctors' teams called One Hospital System.

Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said the idea behind the program is to cater to all patients who need medical attention in the 11 different district hospitals operated by the Capitol.

They have different specialties and we are "pooling them together," Lacson said.

It used to be that a patient is sent to these hospitals because that is where a doctor is reporting, he said.

"This time, this pool of doctors go around the hospitals to attend to these patients, especially those that need operations at pre-scheduled dates," the governor said.

What is important here, Lacson said, is that the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) will support it.

Hopefully, it will include the professional services of the doctors, he added.

"We will bring our doctors to the people so patients do not need to be referred to distant hospitals," lawyer Rayfrando Diaz, provincial administrator, said in an earlier statement.

The objective is to bring surgical, medical and obstetric services closer to Negrenses, particularly indigents residing outside Bacolod City, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Diaz said.