New CCMC 10 storeys high
CEBU, Philippines - A bigger and more spacious Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) costing P1.3 billion would soon be erected on its current location at the corner of N. Bacalso Ave and Panganiban St.
Dr. Shawn Espina and Arch. Mico Espina presented before City Council members yesterday the revised CCMC site development plan. Instead of a five-storey building, the new structure would have 10 stories.
Of the 1.3 billion, P994.86 million is for the building while P305.14 million is for the realignment of Panganiban St. and construction of the CCMC school of nursing building.
Dr. Espina, a general surgeon and lead convenor of CCMC’s Championing the Advancement, Restoration and Establishment (Care) movement, said that with the new plan, CCMC would house all the required wards, clinics and offices compared to the five-storey building they previously eyed.
The 10-storey building would be constructed on a 6,423 square- meter lot, which is bigger compared to the 4,000 square meters identified before.
According to the revised plan, the ground floor, which would cost P61.22 million, would have a 100-slot parking area, mortuary, commercial spaces, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), motorpool, security office, supply storage, housekeeping, workshops, and a chapel.
The upper ground floor (P116.65 million), on the other hand, would constitute the Emergency Rooms (surgery/trauma ER, pediatrics ER, Internal Medicine ER, Obstetrics ER, others), administration office, radiology, laboratory, employee preparatory room, pharmacy, admitting, general set room, and common areas.
The second floor (P114.15 million) would have the out-patient department clinics (300-500 patients a day), dental clinics, ENT clinics, dietary, hospital chapel, dialysis center, cardio-pulmonary center, physical rehabilitation, hemo-oncology department, OB/Women’s health, eye clinic, nutritionist lecture room, and common areas.
The third floor (P107.19 million) would house private rooms, call rooms, department offices, conference rooms, auditorium, doctor’s clinics, medical social services, medical records, medical director’s office, chief nurse office, foundation office, board room, CHAMP office, and common areas.
The fourth floor (P127.90 million), the most expensive section of the building, would have the operating room complex, delivery room complex, neonatal intensive care unit, changing rooms, multi-faith space, gastroenterology unit, and common areas.
The fifth floor (P65.29 million) would be utilized for private rooms, nurse stations, pediatric intensive care unit, burn units, roof garden, surgical intensive care unit, medical intensive care unit, infectious wards, BJMP ward (inmate ward), and common areas.
Meanwhile, 70 percent of the 6th to 10th floors (P100.6 million each), which are considered as “typical floors,†would be charity or service wards, such as private rooms, isolation rooms, nurse stations, suite rooms, and common areas.
The integrated building, or “the one stop service center,†which would consolidate government offices like the Bureau of Fire Protection, City Traffic Operations Management, Department of Social Welfare and Services, Cebu City Command Center, City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, among others, are excluded in the revised plan.
“Maybe twice or thrice the pegged amount for CCMC, including the equipment and the entire facility,†Dr. Espina said, when asked about the cost of the integrated building.
“We have the plan but the money is not yet there (to fund the expenditures),†City Councilor Alvin Arcilla commented, after hearing what Espina said.
City Councilor CCMC Ad Hoc Committee Head Mary Ann delos Santos, however, assured her colleagues that new hospital building would have enough sources of funds.
Of the projected cost, P300 million would be sourced from this year’s approved appropriations for the Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW), while P25.5 million more would be taken from the 2009 to 2013 continuing appropriations that would be realigned. — /RHM (FREEMAN)
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