PARANAQUE CITY, May 7 (PIA)--The city government of Paranaque has formally opened its new six-storey, 120-bed hospital after almost nine months of construction.
Mayor Edwin Olivarez and Health Secretary Enrique Ona on Sunday, May 4 led the formal opening of the Ospital ng Paranaque located along Quirino Avenue, right across the Saint Andrew’s Cathedral in Barangay La Huerta
Ona likened Ospital ng Paranaque to a private hospital when he saw the quality of the construction and its facilities.
“Just one look and you can see that this is a very nice hospital,” Ona said.
“Hopefully, the Ospital ng Paranaque will also be able to provide high quality service to the people of Paranaque and nearby areas similar to the services we see in private hospitals,” Ona added.
The DOH through its Health Facility Enhancement Program (HFEP) committed to provide at least P20 million from the 2015 budget to further augment the new hospital’s facilities and equipment, plus another P33 million for the city’s various health centers.
The new hospital which cost P200 million is an addition to the existing 39-bed hospital previously known as the Paranaque Community Hospital.
Aside from the hospital upgrade, the mayor said that the city is working to strengthen the health centers in the city’s 16 barangays to enable them to provide primary health care, including the provision of lying-in maternity wards.
“This is God’s gift to us, and we must keep it in good shape so that our people will fully benefit from the only public hospital in the city,” the mayor said during the opening.
Also in attendance were the city’s two congressmen, 1st District Representative Eric Olivarez and 2nd District Representative Gustavo Tambunting, who both said that they will see to it that the budget promised by Health Secretary next year will materialize through their work in Congress. (Paranaque/RJB/SDL/PIA-NCR)
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