Villaflor Doctors Hospital set for expansion
THE Villaflor Memorial Doctors Hospital is expanding and has acquired more modern equipment to provide patients with even better medical services.
This was announced by Dr. Vivencio Villaflor Jr., managing director of VMDH on September 27, coinciding with the hospital’s 26th anniversary.
Villaflor said the hospital transferred to its present location in Mayombo, Dagupan City 26 years ago on September 27 from a small clinic and hospital on Arellano Street that operated from 1968 to 1981.
“Actually, we are now 39 years of managing and administering a hospital in Dagupan City, 13 years in our old hospital and 26 years in our new location”, he said.
He said this was what his late father, Vivenvio Villaflor Sr., had envisioned, to have a tertiary hospital so that people in the city and from the whole province of Pangasinan need not go to Manila for medical services and treatment any more.
That old hospital started as a 17-bed capacity until it transferred to its new location with a 50-bed capacity. To date, the hospital has grown into a 100-bed tertiary hospital.
The VMDH has a staff of about 300, with 75 physicians, active and visiting.
VMDH currently has a dialysis center, cardio-pulmonary center and new machines for cardiac 3 d echo, ultra sound, CT scan among others.
“Hopefully, we will put up another building to house our radiology and oncology. We need additional rooms in order to entice more doctors as we are missing some doctors because we cannot offer rooms for them,” Dr. Villaflor said.
Construction of the new building starts in November.—LM
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