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| 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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