CHO gets P60M budget to construct new building

The Davao City Health Office is poised to acquire a budget totaling P60 million from the national expenditure to enable it to construct a new building that would accommodate its staff and facilities.

CHO Chief Dr. Josephine Villafuerte said her office has proposed the construction of new office building, as it could no longer accommodate the CHO staff and the clinics, and the influx of clients.

“The CHO needs much bigger space for individual services to provide its clients with a better environment,” Villafuerte explained.

She also revealed that Health Sec. Paulyn Ubial sent her a text message last Dec. 28 that the budget for the construction of the medical facility would be released to the Department of Health –Davao Region within the first quarter of 2017.

“They can have the funds through signing a memorandum of agreement for your implementation,” Ubial told Villafuerte.

Villafuerte told the reporters that the financial backing would be utilized to construct another building for CHO and its other units, hoping that the building would be built before 2017 ends.

“However, we still need to look for a good place to construct the new CHO building,” Villafuerte.

She added that she would be discussing things regarding the matter with DOH assistant secretary Abdullah Dumama Jr. before all the systems will go for implementation.

She added that the DOH’s Health Facility Enhancement Program (HELP) had funded the constructions of the primary health centers with birthing facilities, lying-ins and health stations in Davao City since 2011 up to the present.

It can be recalled that the CHO has requested for an increase in the budget worth P74 million for improvements and acceleration of its services, programs, and projects last November 2016.

Villafuerte noted that the health center infrastructures in the barangays have medical equipment and instruments but are unfunded compared to the need for upgrading health services utilizations.

“By making these fully functional, additional operational costs will be employed, hence, the need for the increase,” she said.

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