Apart from infrastructure and peace and order, the city government of Davao is widely investing in healthcare.
Recently, the city government broke ground its Davao City Public Hospital (DCPH) at the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UPMin) campus at Mintal, Davao City.
The ceremony was attended by Vice Mayor J. Melchor Quitain Jr., UP president Danilo Concepcion, UPMin chancellor Lyre Anni Murao and officials of the city government of Davao.
“One of the best, if not the best, investment that any city can make is definitely in healthcare. This hospital can and will be able to cater to a lot of Dabawenyos once completed as a Level 3 hospital,” Quitain told Edge Davao.
The DCPH will provide health care and medical intervention for Dabawenyos and is expected to decongest Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC).
For 25 years the DCPH operations will be under the city government, after which it will be turned over to UP.
Proposed by Councilor Mary Joselle Villafuerte through an ordinance entitled “An ordinance for the establishment and construction of a Level III General Hospital in Davao City and appropriation of funds and other purposes,” the Level III 100-bed Davao City Hospital will soon rise within the University of the Philippines-Mindanao Campus in Bago Oshiro, Davao City.
According to the ordinance, the DCPH is envisioned to be a 100-bed Level III Training Hospital that will provide services for all kinds of medical care. The services stipulated are consulting specialists in Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics-Gynecology (Ob-Gyne), and Surgery. In addition, it will have Emergency and Out-patient Services with a Respiratory Unit, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Unit. The ordinance also mentions Isolation facilities, a General Intensive Care Unit, Surgical/Maternity facilities, a High-risk Pregnancy Unit, Ambulatory Surgical Clinic, a Dental Clinic, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and a Dialysis Clinic.
