Sometimes, you have to kind of back off from one problem so you can deal with another one.
This is what the Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) is doing, as it will have its 33-year-old building retrofitted starting Monday, Nov 4. The government hospital is located in Diliman, Quezon City.
“According to PCMC executive assistant Mary Anne Bunyi, their decision to retrofit the building came after the massive Oct 15 quake that damaged houses, schools, hospitals, and historical churches in Bohol and nearby areas in the Visayas,” reports Kathlyn dela Cruz on ABS-CBNnews.com.
Due to the retrofitting, PCMC’s services will be temporarily limited but they will “coordinate with other hospitals for patients who would need to be confined.”
Meanwhile, Bunyi also reiterated their appeal to the Department of Health (DOH) to help them get back a portion of their lot, which was sold by the National Housing Authority (NHA) to the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), a govenment entity under the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
But what makes this whole thing so messed up is the fact that the NHA has asked the PCMC to purchase the lot it has stood on for 33 years for PHP1.1 billion. The NHA said it needs to raise funds for the relocation of informal settlers. The NHA has already been selling portions of the hospital’s lot to other government agencies.
Clearly, something is very wrong with this picture.
