New CCMC facility to have 1,000 beds city to transfer hospital to SRP

CEBU, Philippines -  A new Cebu City Medical Center will soon rise at the South Road Properties (SRP).

This was revealed by Mayor Michael Rama’s executive assistant Joey Daluz to the City Council during the budget hearing on the 2014 budget yesterday.

Daluz presented before the council the first phase of the new CCMC, a six-storey medical facility to be constructed on a 9,000 square-meter lot adjacent to Pedro Calungsod template.

The facility, with a 500-bed capacity, will comprise the first phase of the entire 1,000-bed hospital development on a three-hectare lot, Daluz said.

“I personally talked with the mayor. It is his desire to build first the 500, mag-phasing lang sa ta karon,” Daluz told the council.

He assured the council that the hospital at the SRP will be marketable because of the Mambaling Access Road.

The city government will spend at least P252 million for the first phase or 16.8 percent of the P1.5 billion set aside for the whole hospital development.

The City Council agreed to the amount as it was much lesser compared to the original estimates.

When asked by Councilor Noel Wenceslao what will happen to the old CCMC building, Daluz said it will be demolished.

The CCMC temporarily operates at the Bureau of Fire Protection building after its facility nearby was declared unfit for occupancy following the powerful earthquake in October.

Daluz explained that the construction of the new hospital will immediately start once the city engineers’ Program of Works and Estimates (POWE) is finished.

The design of the new facility will have to go through the city engineers, City Council and Department of Health before the start of the construction.

Daluz said the city will get the funds from the P100 million assistance from the Department of Health, “Piso Mo Hospital Ko” campaign that has already amounted to P8 million, among others. -/LPM  (FREEMAN)