ANGELES CITY -- A councilor here has voiced out his objection against plans to transform the Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center, the City College of Angeles and other facilities into business enterprises.
Councilor Maximo Sangil, City Council minority floor leader, said the institutions were established to serve indigent Angelenos.
Sangil expressed his apprehensions, saying the move might defeat the purpose of a genuine public service.
"Any moneyed individuals will prefer a private hospital. Just like the CCA, it was established to serve poor but deserving students," Sangil said.
He added that other members of the city council are against the plan because it will not benefit majority of the people of Angeles.
"For one, the RLMMC has a subsidy of P100 million [from the city government]. Indigent patients are covered by Philhealth and the hospital is benefitting from that," Sangil said.