EU donates P10-M for city’s One-Stop Diagnostic Center
A state-of-the-art diagnostic center will soon rise in Dagupan City to further expand the healthcare services being provided by the city government for the city’s marginalized sector.
This will be made possible through the P10 million grant from the European Union (EU) for the construction of the modern diagnostic facility.
The project was bared by regional officials of the Department of Health when they met with Mayor Belen Fernandez and City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell.
The diagnostic center will be equipped with modern diagnostic equipment to support a more comprehensive medical services planned for the center.
Mayor Belen T. Fernandez discusses with City Health Officer Dr. Leonard Carbonell (2nd from left) and DOH Regional Civil Engineer Robert Tampangco (4th from left) the planned construction of the one-stop diagnostic center in Dagupan. (CIO photo by Jojo Tamayo)
Services to be offered at the center will include x-ray, ultrasound, food and water testing, and drug testing. It will also be equipped with an ECG or electrocardiogram station.
The laboratory at the second floor of the CHO will be relocated at the new facility to make it more convenient for senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
The diagnostic center will be located at the old PNP station building, beside the CHO building in Barangay Herrero Perez.
“This is really a milestone for the city in terms of healthcare and being responsive to the medical needs of our beneficiaries,” said Carbonell.
The establishment of the diagnostic center will be part of the strategic health agenda of the local government, which includes increasing financial risk protection through PhilHealth enrollments, improving health facilities, and achieving better health outcomes.
Under Fernandez’s Alagang Balon Dagupan program, a total of 15,993 beneficiaries have been given free health services from January to June of this year via the barangay-wide medical missions. (CIO/Patrick Cendreda)
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