HEMODIALYSIS CENTER. Governor Gwendolyn Garcia (left) and her brother Cebu 3rd District Rep. Pablo John Garcia (center) cut the ribbon to signal the opening of the expanded hemodialysis center at the Cebu Provincial Hospital in Balamban, west of Cebu province on Tuesday (June 18, 2024). On the same day, Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas regional director Jaime Bernadas handed over to Garcia the License to Operate Level 2 Hospital, upgrading the accreditation of the Cebu Provincial Hospital-Balamban. (Photo courtesy of Cebu Provincial Capitol PIO)
CEBU CITY – The Cebu Provincial Hospital in the Municipality of Balamban is now accredited to operate on a Level 2 status.
Governor Gwendolyn Garcia received the License to Operate (LTO) a Level 2 Hospital from Department of Health Central Visayas regional director Jaime Bernadas on Tuesday.
Garcia said the hospital was the first among the Capitol-run hospitals with Level 2 accreditation; three other provincial hospitals in Carcar, Danao, and Bogo are in the process of getting the same accreditation level.
“In these hospitals, we are trying to upgrade because every Cebuano, rich or poor, deserves the best services,” Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said in her speech during the formal turnover of the License to Operate (LTO) a Level 2 Hospital.
According to the DOH website, Level 1 hospitals provide emergency care and treatment, general administrative and ancillary services, primary care of prevalent diseases in the locality, and clinical services such as general medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and non-surgical gynecology, and minor surgery.
For Level 2 hospitals, on top of the requirements for Level 1, they must be departmentalized and should have intensive care units, respiratory therapy services, a tertiary clinical laboratory, and a Level 2 imaging facility with mobile X-ray equipment.
In Cebu, the Bantayan District Hospital was elevated to Level 1 last April, while other district hospitals in the province, particularly the Ricardo L. Maningo Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, Camotes, are also on their way to becoming Level 1 hospitals.
Garcia also led the unveiling of the expanded hemodialysis center of the hospital in Balamban in response to the directives of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to strengthen kidney treatment centers in municipalities.
It has 15 additional hemodialysis machines on top of its 10 working units, bringing the total number of machines to 25 and becoming the biggest hemodialysis center among all province-run dialysis centers. (PNA)
