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Manila Bulletin devider Philippines devider Construction of new Gallares Hospital in Bohol to start this year

Construction of new Gallares Hospital in Bohol to start this year

Published May 27, 2020 12:00 am
By Minerva BC Newman TAGBILARAN CITY – The P1.566-billion initial budget for the construction of the new Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH) in Cortes town in Bohol has already been downloaded for utilization this year. Bohol first district Rep. Edgar Chatto (Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN) Bohol first district Rep. Edgar Chatto
(Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN) The GCGMH confirmed to Bohol first district Rep. Edgar Chatto that the P1.566 billion has been allocated, which will be this year’s tranche for the project under a multi-year contractual authority. Chatto said that the GCGMH would be a specialized medical complex that will contribute largely to Bohol’s healthcare system. Virtual bidding has been assured by GCGMH Executive Director Rowena Candice Ruiz Chatto bared that the four-storey new GCGMH specialized medical center will have facilities that will have the following:
  • Critical care center with eight-theatre operating complex consisting of two trauma operating rooms (ORs), six general surgery ORs, and 10-bed PACU.
  • Service building for dietetics and clinical nutrition with main kitchen plus Halal kitchen and staff cafeteria; Two in-patient buildings having in-patient units with multi-occupant rooms for six patients each room and single-occupant rooms;
  • Another critical care center with 10 beds per unit. The entire complex is airborne infection isolation capable (negative pressure). In times of epidemic or public health emergency, the negative pressire can be activated.
  • Another service building with academic wing having conference rooms and auditorium, and executive/administrative offices; Critical health care center also with eight-theatre operating complex consisting of two integrated ORs (advanced minimally invasive surgery), two special ORs (subspecialty orthopedics and spine plus neurosurgery), two advanced surgery rooms (thoraco-cardiovascular and transplant), two class-3 imaging OR suites (cardio catheterization plus interventional cardiology), and 10-bed PACU;
  • Another service building for materials management section and warehouse; another in-patient building for imaging institute on nuclear medicine, automated pharmacy, and ocean lounge (centralized frontline service center) involving billing/cashier/social service/Malasakit Center/medical records.
  • In-patient building for rehabilitation and human performance institute, kidney and urology institute (20-unit hemodialysis center), and transplant center for kidney and cornea; Behavioral science and psychiatry (lower ground).
  • In-patient building also has laboratory medicine and pathology institute (molecular pathology, clinical biochemistry and hemopathology, clinical microbiology, transfusion medicine, and clinical cytopathology); sky lounge (centralized reception and waiting for diagnostic center patients); advanced diagnostic center---respiratory unit, neurosciences unit, heart and vascular institute; and women's health unit;
  • In-patient building for obstetric complex and neonatal medicine; and a helipad.
Chatto batted to establish within the new GCGMH complex a Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) subnational center for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The whole project strongly supports and strengthens the upgraded healthcare agenda of the province under Gov. Arthur Yap, he added.
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