Soon to rise the Regional Health Service 8 Level 1 Hospital

By RPCRD, Police Regional Office 8
January 9, 2012

CAMP RUPERTO K KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte  –  In line with the Third Key Result Areas (PNP Facilities Development) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Integrated Transformation Program which aims to develop and upgrade the facilities of the PNP,  PRO8 holds the Ground Breaking Ceremony that will signal the construction of the Regional Health Service 8 Level 1 Hospital at Camp Ruperto K Kangleon, Palo, Leyte, according to PSSupt Elizar Patano Egloso, Chief Regional Police Community Relations Division.

PCSupt Arnold Rayala Revilla, Regional Director represented by PSSupt Edgar O Basbas, Deputy Regional Director for Operations, PSupt Alvin T Opiniano, MD, MSPH, Chief, Regional Health Service 8 together with the Guest of Honor and Speaker Dir. Edgardo Gonzaga, Regional Director, DOH8 officiated the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of  P5.2 million worth of hospital for PRO8 inside this  Camp which started at about 9:00 AM and witnessed by the PRO8 personnel and other members of the DOH personnel.

The ceremony marked the beginning of the construction of the said hospital to address the growing and changing health care needs of the PNP personnel and their family in the region.

Meanwhile, Guest of Honor and Speaker Dr. Edgardo Gonzaga, in his message, said that the project is inline with the Department of Health CY 2010 Millennium Development Goals Program and Guided by the 1987 Constitution Principle that “Health is a Right of every Filipino citizen”, and the state is duty bound to ensure that all Filipinos have equitable access to effective health care services, identified health stations and hospitals for upgrading.

PRO8-RHS8 proposed a P5.2 million Level 1 infirmary hospital with a P2 million worth of equipment.  This is a result of the instruction of Dir. Edgardo M Gonzaga MD, DOH Region 8 director dated May 20, 2010 thru the Coordination of then OIC, Health Service 8 PCI Jorge C Rueda III during one of the inter-agency conferences and inspection of DOH8, in compliance to its Supervisory Mandate on all Government Hospitals. This Level 1 Hospital aims to be more responsive to the health needs of its catchment population and to decongest the tertiary hospitals in the nearby places.