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HomePublic LifeSix solons to Duque: include more budget for Corazon in DOH program

Six solons to Duque: include more budget for Corazon in DOH program

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BACOLOD CITY – Six Negros Occidental solons have urged Health Sec. Francisco Duque III to include in its program for next year the additional budget required for the increased capacity of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital from 400 to 1,000 as provided for under a law signed recently by President Rodrigo Duterte.

Letter of six Negros Occidental representatives to Health Sec. Francisco  Duque III requesting inclusion of additional budget for the increased bed capacity of Western Visayas Regional Hospital as provided for under the law authored by Bacolod Cong. Greg Gasataya and approved recently by  President Duterte.
Letter of six Negros Occidental representatives to Health Sec. Francisco Duque III requesting inclusion of additional budget for the increased bed capacity of Western Visayas Regional Hospital as provided for under the law authored by Bacolod Cong. Greg Gasataya and approved recently by President Duterte.

The measure, Republic Act 1141, was authored by Bacolod Cong. Greg G. Gasataya and was signed August 28 by Duterte.

The solons – Gerardo P. Valmayor, Jr. (1st District), Leo Rafael M. Cueva (2nd), Francisco “Kiko” B. Benitez (3rd), Juliet Marie De Leon Ferrer (4th), Ma. Lourdes T. Arroyo (5th), and Genaro M. Alvarez Jr. (6th) pointed out the law would help in decongesting CLMMRH, also known as the Western Visayas Regional Hospital, that is running beyond capacity on a daily basis.

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The 2017 census of the hospital, they said, showed an average of 724 patients per day, beyond its 400-bed capacity.

They said the additional budget would “decongest the sole end referral tertiary hospital for poor and indigent residents of Negros Occidental.”

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Julius D. Mariveles
Julius D. Mariveles
An amateur cook who has a mean version of humba, the author has recently tried to make mole negra, the Mexican sauce he learned by watching shows of master chef Rick Bayless. A journalist since 19, he has worked in the newsrooms of radio, local papers, and Manila-based news organizations. A stroke survivor, he now serves as executive editor of DNX.
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