LINGAYEN– The Lingayen District Hospital (LDH) in this capital town will be converted into a provincial hospital, once the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in San Carlos City becomes a medical center.

This was disclosed by Governor Amado Espino Jr. during the unveiling of the bust of Don Mariano Verzosa at the LDH, also known as Don Mariano Versoza Memorial Hospital, on May 11.

Espino said the training and orientation for the PPH in San Carlos City is ongoing in preparation for it becoming a medical center under the supervision of the national government.

Consequently, Espino said the LDH can be expanded PPH in the province’s capital town.

As part of the hospital expansion, Dr. Athena Merrera, LDH chief of hospital, said a two-storey building will soon rise at the LDH to house the administrative offices and the out-patient department.

During bust-unveiling event in honor of the late Versoza, Mr. Espino remarked “Don Mariano Versoza, when he served as Vice Mayor and Mayor of Lingayen in the 1960s, had the vision of establishing a public hospital in the capital town.”

LDH is currently Level 1 hospital under the new Department of Health classification capable of providing major clinical, medical, surgical, obstetrics-gynecology, and pediatrics services.

Merrera said they cater to an average of 108 out-patients daily.- (Johanne Macob)

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