BACOLOD City – The city government here considers converting the City Health Office (CHO) into a mini hospital. A councilor, on the other hand, plans to file an ordinance seeking the creation of a dialysis center. It is time for CHO to be renovated and expanded to accommodate more patients, Mayor Monico Puentevella said. Puentevella said he was informed an ill girl taken to CHO recently had died. Before that, he said, the girl’s mother went to Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) but was not accommodated because the hospital was already “overcrowded.” He said the city government needs to have its own mini hospital to take the patients who cannot be admitted in existing hospitals here. Councilor Alex Paglumotan, meanwhile, thought it would be good if the city government also has a dialysis center. In 2014, the Sangguniang Panlungsod asked representatives in Negros Occidental to “donate or cause the donation of” a hemodialysis machine to CLMMRH. In the resolution authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran, health committee chair, the council said the number of hemodialysis machines at CLMMRH is not enough to “serve the overwhelming needs” of patients in the province and this capital city. Abang Lingkod party-list’s Rep. Stephen Paduano, on the other hand, is working on a bill that requires the national government, through the Department of Health, to put up at least two hemodialysis machines in all public hospitals in the country. Puentevella had also said part of the income from the sale of the Manokan Country property will go to health care services, which include the purchase of new hemodialysis machines./PN By MAE SINGUAY Panay News February 22, 2016 sgg
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