Solon Bats Upgrading Of CVMC’s Bed Capacity, Other District Hospitals

To accommodate more patients here and other parts of the region, Cagayan Third District Representative Randolph S. Ting proposed an Act increasing the bed capacity of the Cagayan Valley Medical Center (CVMC) from 500 to 1,000 beds and appropriating the needed funds.

CVMC, the only state-run tertiary hospital in Region 2, has only 500 inpatient beds which could not accommodate the bulk of patients seeking medical treatment coming from various provinces regionwide, including the neighbouring Kalinga and Apayao provinces.

Ting said there is a need for the additional beds in order to meet the anticipated demands and to ensure all patients coming in will be accommodated.

He also proposed for the upgrading of some district hospitals in the different towns in Cagayan as well as the reopening of the province’s other district hospitals to decongest the bulk of patients referred to CVMC daily.

“There is also a need to upgrade the provincial hospital into a tertiary level so that it can accommodate even severe cases,” Ting added.

The lawmakers said if the hospitals and other medical facilities will be improved, then quality service delivery to all patients will be guaranteed and to be at par, if not exceed, the standards of private hospitals in the region.

Ting, meanwhile, revealed that he has a number of scholars earning medical degrees so that later on, these scholars will be deployed in the barrios to serve the underprivileged once they become medical doctors. (ALM/OTB/PIA-2 Cagayan)