Leyte province intends to make LPH the Leyte Medical Center

By Provincial Media Relations Center (PMRC Leyte)
December 19, 2007

PALO, Leyte  –  The provincial government of Leyte is presently undertaking certain improvement works at the Leyte Provincial Hospital (LPH) here in an effort to convert the same facility into what is envisioned as the Leyte Medical Center in the near future.

Board Member Lesmes Lumen, the chairman of the committee on health of the provincial board and concurrently the coordinator of the Provincial Health Office, said it is Leyte Gov. Carlos Jericho “Icot” Petilla himself who ordered to upgrade or enhance the present amenities and services of the Leyte Provincial Hospital so as to meet the demands of the patients it serves and also provide the hospital a whole new much better look.

Lumen said the initial improvement works on the appearance of the hospital and the new facilities added to it has already brought significant positive changes to the overall operations of the medical facility.

“With the establishment of some private rooms at the Leyte Provincial Hospital (LPH), we are getting more paying patients now,” he said.

According to Lumen, ten more private rooms will be added to LPH so to further improved the quality of service of the said hospital.

“We have observed that more and more patients prefer to occupy the private rooms than stay in the wards that’s why we are increasing them,” Lumen said.

But he said an additional 25-bed ward also would be constructed at the Leyte Provincial Hospital to cater in more patients.

Aside from additional rooms, the hospital would soon also acquire new facilities or medical equipments such as X-ray machine, ultrasound and in the near future a CT scan, Lumen said.

He said the funds for this project would come from the provincial government of Leyte and some would be sourced from the income of the hospital.

Lumen said the LPH is now generating certain amount as income that can be attributed mainly to the new facilities it acquired through the efforts of the provincial government of Leyte.