VSMMC receives eye equipment

CEBU, Philippines - The public can now avail of eye surgery at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center after the hospital received several equipment for its Eye Center donated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Humanitarian Department, Mabuhay Deseret Foundation and LDS Charities.

Rhea Fantonial- Bautista, LDS director for public affairs, said they have been donating medical equipment for the past several years all over the country and this is the second time they donated to the VSMMC.

Among the equipment donated are eye scanners, microscopes and other eye operating machine. These equipment are to be used for the diagnoses of cataract and glaucoma. 

VSMMC director Dr. Gerardo Aquino and Dr. Cymeer Go, consultant of the ophthalmology department, received the equipment from elder and sister Hardick, Emmanuel Hernandez and Dr. Branson Call.

Dr. Call said that they will always look out of those who are in need. He also shared that they are now giving temporary shelters to the victims at Cagayan De Oro City who were stricken by typhoon Sendong last December.

Meanwhile, Aquino yesterday announced that the hospital’s delivery room, labor room, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ward 1 and 2 will not be accepting obstetric cases from March 19 to 31, 2012.

Aquino said that the hospital’s Infection Control Committee will conduct its annual routine preventive maintenance, scrubbing and cleaning together with the post-culture in the mentioned rooms and complex.

Aquino said that patients will be referred to St. Anthony Mother and Child and at the Talisay District Hospital for patients coming from the southern part of Cebu and at the Eversley Child Sanitarium and General Hospital for patients coming from the northern part of the province.

He said that maintenance is done in order to provide the public a safe and a clean hospital environment. (FREEMAN)