Eastern Samar provincial hospital undergoes upgrading

By ALICE NICART with SAMMY CANDIDO
January 19, 2007

BORONGAN, Eastern Samar  –  In line with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s priority programs in elevating the country’s secondary hospitals, the Eastern Samar’s Provincial Hospital will soon be converted into a Tertiary Care Hospital.

In an interview with the Chief of Hospitals, Dr. Salvador Evardone, it was learned that two of the region’s hospitals will soon benefit from the President’s program after a team of doctors coming from DOH Central Office went around the region to asses and indeed found out several deficiencies, specifically in the Eastern and Northern Samar’s provincial hospital. Thus, with this discovery, it was recommended that funds be released soon for the upgrading of subject hospitals.

Evardone further revealed that some P13.5M will be allotted to Northern Samar’s Provincial Hospital while P22.3M goes to Eastern Samar. He disclosed that these funds will be utilized in infrastructure projects such as: the expansion of laboratories, Pharmacy, X-ray and Ultra Sound Sections.  Likewise, improvement of Operating and Delivery rooms will be effected as well as the construction of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the construction of conference room and library to address the research needs of affiliated nursing students.

Since Eastern Samar now takes pride in having two nursing schools (Eastern Samar State University and Our Lady of Mercy College) the urgent plan of the main hospital in the province is just fitting, Evardone wittingly remarked. He also said that some P4.1M will however be reserved for the purchase of medicines and surgical laboratory equipment, housekeeping’s linen and mattresses, while P1.1M is prepared to buy Ventilator and Cardiac Monitor equipment. Indeed, the previous problem in the province’s hospital in just very simple needs for cotton and medical plasters, is now a history which have long been stored in the hospital’s archives.

At present, Eastern Samar Provincial Hospital has become departmentalized. Pediatrics, Surgical, Medicines, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Ultra-Sounds, Pathology, Radiology and Anesthesiology. Evardone reported that four to seven doctors take turns in managing each of the department, add to this the consultants, diplomats and trusted doctors in the locality who augment the hospital operation whenever necessary.