The hospital will cater to residents of the Lone District of Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.
“We need more hospitals especially public hospitals,” stressed Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, author and co-sponsor of the Senate counterpart of the bill.
“Right now, the whole province of Negros Occidental has only one tertiary government hospital. Bacolod alone has a population of over half a million people,” he said.
“We saw how our hospitals have struggled throughout the pandemic. They’ve been performing at overcapacity, and our medical frontliners have been severely overworked,” he added.
“There is a clear need for more hospitals in the country, in order to reach out to and cater to more people, and also to alleviate the pressure on our existing hospitals,’’ he explained.
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