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The reported closing down of devolved hospitals is unlikely, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Reymoses Cabagnot said.

Cabagnot issued the statement before the media during the Governor's Report last week as a reaction to the report of shutting down of government hospitals.

The idea or suggestion of shutting them down and merging their personnel and functions with other (hospitals), if they are found to be non-performing assets, is being mulled by the appropriations committee of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan chaired by Bohol Vice-Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera.          

This developed as the committee found that primary hospitals, those with ten-bed capacity, showed dwindling occupancy rate and yet the province spends millions of pesos for maintenance and personnel services. But secondary ones fared well in the past months. Occupancy rate is gauged by the number of days the patients stay at the hospitals to fully utilize bed capacity, said Dr. Sodusta. It is different from the number of patients admitted for medical or surgical and other treatment.

Cabagnot said that PHO was not discussing on the closure of the hospitals but there are options, such as partnership with the local government units concerned where the hospitals are having catchment areas. He did not elaborate what this partnership about.

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