The Cebu Provincial Hospital (CPH) in Carcar City received a much-needed boost with the formal blessing and opening of its six-storey hospital extension building.
Gov. Gwen Garcia and Carcar City Mayor Patricio Barcenas, along with other southern Cebu officials, led the inauguration of the edifice that has a total floor area of 1,322.76 square meters, capable of holding 120 beds.
Capitol spent over P114 million for the building’s construction intended to augment CPH Carcar’s current capacity of only 50 beds.
Dr. Prudencio Manubag, chief of hospital of CPH Carcar, said the facility will greatly capacitate them to accommodate more patients from the southern side of Cebu, especially that their actual occupancy rate is at 200%, or double their authorized bed capacity.
“Pasalamat ko ni Gov. nga with these two projects, the hemodialysis and the six-storey building, we are given the opportunity to expand and improve our services to our catchment municipalities and cities,” Dr. Manubag told Sugbo News.
Dr. Manubag said the new building will be used to house their isolation rooms, pedia, surgery, internal medicine, OB-GYN sections.
CPG Carcar is a Level I hospital that is authorized to perform operations. The management is currently applying for Level II accreditation before the Department of Health.
Also present during the ceremony were San Fernando Mayor Mytha Canoy and Sibonga Mayor Lionel Bacaltos, as well as Board Member Stanley Caminero, chair of the PB committee on public health. | Ioannes P. Arong
