R1MC is not dugyot! — Mejia
THE management of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) is mulling legal action against a national television program for labeling the government-owned hospital “dugyot”, a word with Ilocano roots that connotes filth and mess.
Dr. Roland Mejia, hospital director, said the TV program aired last September 20 unfairly and maliciously described the R1MC located in Dagupan as an unhygienic hospital.
“(It) is destructive to the image of the R1MC because it is not true,” Mejia said in a press conference Monday.
“I am furious. Dugyot is unacceptable … dugyot is detestable,” Mejia said.
He explained that the video simply showed one yellow plastic bag on top of a table in one room to suggest unsanitary practice.
But the clean, shiny floor tiles in the same video clip, Mejia pointed out, reflects the true state of the hospital as a well-maintained facility.
The R1MC, an 85-year old facility with a 300-bed capacity, has been renovated and expanded in recent years and 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia is pushing for a bill in congress to extend the hospital into 600 beds.
It handles an average of 450 patients a day, more than its capacity, but Mejia as he denied that the hospital conducts surgical operations along the corridors when the TV program insinuated this by showing a doctor attending to a patient’s wound outside an operation room.
He admitted to the congestion in the hospital but pointed out more now prefer to be admitted to the hospital because of its quality medical services.
“Patients from Pangasinan and nearby provinces know the real situation here,” Mejia said.–Eva Visperas
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