First District Rep. Celso Lobregat has filed a bill that seeks to amend Batas Pambansa Bilang 517, in a move to upgrade the Labuan Public Hospital to a Level II General Hospital.
Lobregat on Wednesday said the passage of H.B. 4945 will upgrade the 10-bed Labuan Public Hospital to a 200-bed capacity, for it to cope with the increasing number of patients.
The hospital, which is located in Barangay Labuan, 36 kilometers west of City Hall, provides preventive and curative services to residents in the barangay and nearby areas such as the municipality of Sibuco and Sirawai in Zamboanga del Norte.
Lobregat said with the rapid increase of population in this city, the existing health facility of Labuan Public Hospital is extremely inadequate to accommodate the increasing number of patients coming to the hospital daily.
The Labuan Public Hospital was created through Batas Pambansa Bilang 517 issued on June 10,1983 or 33 years ago.
“If Labuan Public Hospital will be upgraded to Level II, it will be upgraded into a 200-bed capacity from the recent 10-bed capacity. We have to prepare it for the future especially with the increasing number of population and patients in the west coast,” Lobregat said.
He said given its limited capacity and resources, it is therefore imperative that the Labuan Public Hospital be converted into Level II General Hospital in order to provide more adequate services to its patients.
He said its existing service facilities, professional health care services and the number of personnel have to be upgraded to conform with and be commensurate to its increased functional capacity. (PNA)
0 comments:
Post a Comment