The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be building a three-storey hospital building in Quezon province.
AFP chief of staff Lt. Gen. Bartolome Vicente O Bacarro said the Camp General Nakar Station Hospital inside the Southern Luzon Command headquarters in Lucena City will have a 25-bed capacity with full complement and capability of a Level 1 hospital that can provide in-patient, out-patient, emergency, and ancillary services.
“Our job as soldiers entails great perils and risks to our lives, especially for our operating troops who confront armed threat groups to protect the communities here in Southern Tagalog,” Bacarro said.
“Thus, it is imperative that they be given top-notch medical and health services for them to maintain ‘fit bodies and sound minds’ and receive the best immediate medical treatment should their lives be put on the line in the performance of their duties,” he added.
Bacarro said the project was made possible through the joint efforts of the Department of National Defense and the Department of Public Works and Highways through Tatag ng Imprastraktura para sa Kapayapaan at Seguridad (TIKAS) program.