LCGH, San Nicolas LGU eye tie-up for indigents’ hospitalization

The Laoag City Gen. Hospital

By Dominic B. dela Cruz

Staff reporter

Laoag City—The Laoag City General Hospital (LCGH) and the municipality of San Nicolas will soon forge a partnership in terms of hospitalization of indigent patients from the said municipality.

LCGH chief Dr. Manolito Dacuycuy made this statement after an initial meeting with San Nicolas Mayor Melanie Grace P. Valdez for the said issue.

Dr. Dacuycuy disclosed that the proposal is open to all municipalities in the province and it is only San Nicolas which has been first presented with this. San Nicolas has the most number of patients admitted at LCGH outside of Laoag.

The LCGH chief added that some of patients from San Nicolas are indigents but are not enrolled with the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).

He also divulged that Ms. Valdez has accepted the proposal and that they are looking at giving an initial funding of P50,000 for this year.

The said amount will be used as the municipal government’s trust fund and which would be intended for indigents who belong to Class C3 and D as point-of-care hospitalization.

Dr. Dacuycuy explained further that only admitted indigent patients will be covered by the agreement.

He added that point-of-care beneficiaries will be covered 100 percent regardless of type of confinement.

To formalize the partnership, the San Nicolas and Laoag City governments need to come up with a memorandum of agreement.

San Nicolas Vice Mayor Alfredo “Boying” P. Valdez Jr. meanwhile said that San Nicolas and the Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in Batac City already have an existing MOA similar to LCGH proposal.

Mr. Valdez said San Nicolas has a trust fund in Batac hospital exclusively for the “poorest of the poor” from their municipality for the point-of-care system.

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