The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) will have 12 additional super health centers by 2025 to cater to its 1.8 million population, an official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Department of Health-CAR assistant regional director Dr. Janice Bugtong, in an interview Wednesday, said seven of these facilities are currently being constructed while five will be constructed in the next months.<\/p>\n
Bugtong said the seven that are under construction are part of the 14 funded in 2023, half of which are already in operations.<\/p>\n
The seven that have been completed are in Abra, 2, and one each in Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Tabuk City.<\/p>\n
Of the five that are in the pipeline, three will be in Mt. Province and one each in Benguet and Apayao.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese facilities, which are in between the classification of a hospital and a rural health unit, will bring service closer to the people in the community. They have capabilities of handling a little more complicated health problems which are usually attended in hospitals,\u201d Bugtong told the Philippine News Agency.<\/p>\n
The super health centers are equipped with laboratory testing capability, an X-ray, provisions for dental service, a minor operating room, a birthing clinic, with some having tuberculosis directly observed therapy (TB-DOT) clinics, she said.<\/p>\n
Bugtong said the region has 1,176 villages in 75 municipalities and two cities in its six provinces.<\/p>\n
There are 1,129 barangays health centers, 33 infirmaries, 98 rural health units and district health centers, 29 hospitals, a social hygiene clinic and one drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation center, the DOH-retained Drug Rehabilation Center in Mountain Province.<\/p>\n
Bugtong said there are four DOH-retained hospitals, with the 600-bed capacity level 3 Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center identified as the region\u2019s apex hospital under the Universal Health Care Law implementation.<\/p>\n
The others are Luis Hora Medical Center in Mountain Province, Far North Medical Center in Apayao, and Conner District Hospital in Apayao.<\/p>\n
At present, the facility-patients ratio in the Cordillera is at 1:18,895 while the barangay health station to patients ratio is 1:1,640.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe aim to make access to health services, health personnel and health facilities better, which is the goal of the universal health care law,\u201d Bugtong said. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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