Malacañang has released a memorandum adopting the Philippine Health Facility Development Plan 2020-2040, where LGUs are urged to support the national gov't's initiatives by setting up health facilities in their respective jurisdiction. | GabrielLaluINQ
With this, the Department of Health and the Department of the Interior and Local Government are tasked to “facilitate the dissemination and ensure the effective implementation of the PHFDP at the local level.”
“In accordance with their respective mandates, all concerned agencies and instrumentalities of the National Government, including government-owned or -controlled corporations, are hereby directed, and all LGUs are hereby encouraged, to undertake efforts in support of the implementation of the PHFDP, and the plans and programs specified therein,” the memorandum read.
Last August 2022, then DOH officer-in-charge and Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the following are among the DOH-run hospitals under the program:Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in Batac City, Ilocos NorteBatangas Medical Center in Batangas CityNorthern Mindanao Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro CityThis means these hospitals would have the allocation for neonatal, heart, lung, kidney, and cancer specialty centers.
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