Holland Journalists Visit City Hall

Holland Journalists Rein Flores and Peter Janssen, visited Cebu City Hall for a Courtesy Call to Cebu City Mayor Michael Lopez Rama late November asking the Mayor his plan to rebuild the quake-damaged Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC), which is declared unsafe by local Structural Engineers and from Manila following the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the city last October 15, 2013.

CCMC’s services are transferred to the nearby Bureau of Fire and Protection (BFP) building to cater the medical needs of its patients, while BFP is transferred to Parian Fire Station and Cebu City Sports Complex.

Mayor Rama said that he will always stand to build a modern and global but affordable hospital for the poor through a Public-Private Partnership initiative.

The city has launched the “PISO MO, Hospital KO for CCMC” fund-raising campaign to help rebuild the hospital for the poor last October 21 this year.

As of this writing, the campaign has raised more than seven million pesos and still continuing in strategic locations.

“We have also health centers in the 80 barangays in Cebu City, we will utilize them to cater the basic medical needs of the people,” the city’s Chief Executive underscored, adding that “When I start a project with pure intention I bring it to the people, and CCMC is a People’s Hospital.”

The two Journalists who visited CCMC last November 24 also shared that their government with the Haarlemmermeer City, who has a sister cityhood relationship with Cebu City, will also extend help for CCMC.

Furthermore, the journalists said their output, which will be published in ‘The North Holland Daily’ newspaper, will be sent to their Holland office via online. During their visit they were accompanied by the city’s Protocol Officer Ryan Necitas Echevarria.

(By: Greggy Jiggs P. Senados, PIO Staff, Press Release form Cebu City Information Office (PIO))