THE City of Bacolod is planning to establish a dialysis center and a mini-hospital. Councilor Alex Paglumotan said he will propose an ordinance creating the dialysis center in relation to the concept of Mayor Monico Puentevella to convert the City Health Office (CHO) into a mini-hospital. Puentevella said the CHO needs to be renovated for expansion to accommodate dialysis patients. The mayor said his concept of establishing a mini-hospital came up after he received information last week that a certain mother went to the CHO and asked helped for the treatment of her daughter, who later died. Before that, the patient was brought to Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH), but she was not accommodated due to overcrowding. In 2014, the City Council approved a resolution authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran requesting the 11 congressmen from Negros Occidental to donate or cause the donation of a hemodialysis machine to the CLMMRH. For his part, Abang Lingkod party-list Representative Stephen Paduano is working on a House bill which will require the national government through the Department of Health to put up at least two hemodialysis machines in all public hospitals in the country within three years. (CNC)
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