By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
Laoag
City—A city councilor proposed the renaming
of the Laoag City General Hospital (LCGH) into the Michael V. FariƱas Memorial
Hospital (MVFMH).
The council tackled
the proposed resolution, sponsored by Laoag councilor Edison Siazon on first
reading. The council later referred it to the committees on health and laws.
Laoag vice mayor
and council presiding officer Franklin Dante A. Respicio requested that they
should also refer the proposal to the National Historical Institute of the
Philippines to know the requirements needed for its renaming.
Mr. Siazon, who
chairs the committee on health, welcomed the suggestion saying he will secure
all the needed requirements, if there are any.
Relative to this, Mr.
Siazon said that the measure would be in recognition and a memorial to the late
Laoag mayor and vice mayor for the “big transformation” he made for the LCGH.
Mr. FariƱas
perished in a car crash last June.
Under the revised guidelines
on the naming and renaming of streets, public schools, places, buildings, bridges
and other public structures, it states that the Philippine president can name
or rename all public places through a proclamation or by Congress through
legislation.
The guidelines also
state: “No public place should
be named or renamed after a person within 10 years of his death except for
highly exceptional reasons like the death was due to assassination in the
service of the country; he/she gave exceptional service to the nation; death
while trying to save others; death was a result of his patriotism and death
while in performance of one’s duty”.
Laoag City
Ordinance No. 48 created the LCGH during the administration of the late Laoag
Mayor Eulalio F. Siazon in 1969.
The LCGH started
with a 15-bed capacity hospital in 1975, with the Department of Health (DOH) establishing
it. The Philippine Hospital Association classified it as a “general and primary
hospital” in 1984.
On November 2008,
the Laoag City government during the term of the late Laoag Mayor Michael V.
FariƱas declared LCGH as an “economic enterprise”.
Since then, LCGH
became a self-sustaining and income-generating enterprise of the city
government, similar to the Laoag City Public Market.
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