Bohol boasts of another “first†on having the country’s
first oxygen generator installed by the Brilliant Metal Craft (BMC) at the Holy Name University Medical Center at Dampas District here.
HNU embarked on the state-of-the-art medical breakthrough in Bohol to help improve competitiveness and medical tourism that integrates pipeline, vacuum system and oxygen generators.
HNU administrators believe the new facility “will help prepare their medical center for a better patient experience, increase competitiveness and advance medical tourism capabilitiesâ€.
The facility package includes oxygen generators, centralized medical oxygen pipeline system, centralized medical suction pipeline system and a machine that shreds sharp and infectious waste materials from the hospitals like used syringe.
The shredded syringes can be recycled as materials for making hollowblocks, according to Dampor Sr. of BMC and James and Jean Newell of OxyAir Gases.
Gov. Erico Aumentado lauded HNU for launching another missionary endeavor, aside from making a name in academic excellence.
The governor was the guest of honor during the inauguration of the HNU medical center medical pipeline and commissioning of its oxygen generator.
“This occasion is very auspicious to the medical tourism program of the provincial government of Bohol. It comes at the time when our poor people and those in the middle-class suffer the high cost of hospitalization. The entry of HNU to this field provide the stop-gap,†Aumentado said.
The governor cited HNU medical center as a new partner in the provincial government’s effort to ensure that poor and middle-class Boholanos will have access to medical services.
In fact, the province has enrolled about 90,000 indigent Boholanos provincewide and 52,000 barangay officials and workers in the universal PhilHealth coverage.
“This occasion speaks well of the vision of HNU leaders of providing us one new technology that could help our patients with necessary life-saving device which could be very expensive in other hospitals,†Aumentado said.
Since the technology utilizes free air in the oxygen generation, it would be cheaper at the HNU medical center.
“Congratulations to the people behind the project for the move to enhance health care to the people and for embarking on a medical center that could help the people. It helps us realize our program on medical tourism in Bohol,†Aumentado added.
The governor cited that by December 31 last year, influx of tourists already reached the 500,000 mark, most of them asking for any facility that could provide medical tourism. - Angeline Valencia, PNA
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