The vision to build a big structure for the Tagbilaran Puericulture Center and Maternity House ( TPCMH) and upgrade its services are finally fulfilled almost 90 years after its establishment in the 1920s.
Former Tagbilaran City Mayor Jose Ma. Rocha, chief executive officer and chairman of the TPCMH Board of Trustees, generously thanked Rep. Edgar Chatto for causing Malacanang to pour P6 million to the project thru the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office ((PCSO).
The First District congressman allocated an additional P5 million from the National Budget, said an equally grateful Engr. Greta Mende who is the board treasurer.
Although an institution on its own, the center has become an essential “extension†of the government-owned Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital as it accommodates patients, particularly pregnant women, who can no longer be admitted at the GCGMH, Bohol’s biggest hospital. For years, it has been known as a “poor man’s hospitalâ€.
Like the GCGMH, the TPCMH honors even small financial aids from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to pay the hospital bill of a poor patient.
The center has now 25 beds and is asking authority for at least additional five more from the Department of Health (DOH).
In the recent spate of the killer dengue in Bohol, the TPCMH helped save many lives of poor patients who were refused admission at the already over-congested GCGMH and could not afford the cost of private hospitals.
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