BACOLOD City – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will hold a groundbreaking for the Bacolod City General Hospital (BCGH) this Friday morning, Sept. 9, announced Cong. Greg Gasataya.
The P450-million city hospital will rise on a four-hectare lot in Barangay Vista Alegre donated by the Gensoli Family to the local government.
Gasataya authored Republic Act (RA) 11564 establishing BCGH to address the congestion at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital. He said Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri confirmed his attendance to the groundbreaking.
Zubiri filed the counterpart bill in the Senate.
Several officials from DPWH and the Department of Health (DOH) will also be present at Friday’s event.
Gasataya said the construction of the BCGH will have two phases – the multi-purpose building and the main hospital building.
The local government will name the whole integrated property “Teofilo M. Gensoli, Sr. Memorial Medical Center” which will include the BCGH and the other medical establishments.
BCGH will be a tertiary general hospital offering services such as family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency services, outpatient services, and ancillary and support services such as clinical laboratory, imaging facility, and a pharmacy, the congressman elaborated.
Along with these, facilities such as a physical medicine and rehabilitation unit, an ambulatory surgical clinic, a dialysis clinic, a tertiary clinical lab with histopathology, a blood bank, and third-level X-ray may also be included./PN
