Espino leads dialysis center groundbreaking
LINGAYEN — The province’s first government-owned dialysis center at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City will start serving the public by January next year.
Gov. Amado Espino Jr. made this assurance during the groundbreaking ceremonies last Friday, even as he announced that the center will be named after the late San Carlos City Mayor Julian Resuello.
The governor said the construction of the building will start immediately through the joint funding of the provincial government and the San Carlos City government.
San Carlos City Mayor Julier Resuello, son of the late mayor, has already earmarked P15 million as his city’s counterpart for the project.
The center will be equipped with 14 dialysis machines, 12 of which will be donated by the US-based Davita Incorporated Mission headed by Peter Cayaban.
Espino said the dialysis center forms part of the provincial government’s action plan to make costly specialized medical treatment available to averaged income residents, especially the indigent families.
“It’s a dream that will be realized,” he said, adding that each of the six district and seven community hospitals will be installed with fully air-conditioned maternal and newborn care units, with modern instruments, i.e., fetal doppler, pulse oxymeter and ultrasound and electrocardiograph (ECG) machines.
Espino said the provincial government will also set up a child protection center for abused children and a center for battered women.
Earlier, the European Union approved a P150-million grant for Pangasinan to boost its five-year health care modernization program in coordination with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Health (DOH).
P17.7 million has already been released to finance multi-sectoral trainings and seminars on integrated health care upkeep based on the strategic FOURmula approach involving service delivery, financing, regulation and good governance.
Meanwhile, the provincial information office reported that more than 80,000 indigent families have been enrolled in the PhilHealth program.#
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