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Sen. Go pushes for investments in health care

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• GILBERT P. BAYORAN

Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go and Mayor Joedith Gallego lead the groundbreaking rites of a Super Health Center to be built in Brgy. E Lopez, Silay City.* GPB photo

Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go kept pushing for investments in the health care system, as he led the groundbreaking of a Super Health Center yesterday in Brgy. E Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental.

Two other Super Health Centers are presently up for construction in the cities of Bago and San Carlos in Negros Occidental, having broken ground in the past several months.

Go, chair of the Senate committee on Health and Demography, disclosed that a Super Health Center is an enhanced version of the rural health unit, offering a wide range of health services, such as database management, outpatient care, birthing facilities, isolation areas, diagnostic services, including laboratory tests, X-rays and ultrasounds, pharmacy services, and ambulatory surgical units.

He added that the Super Health Centers will help decongest hospitals.

Through the collective efforts of his fellow lawmakers, Go reported that sufficient funds had been allocated for 307 Super Health Centers in 2022, with seven to be established in Negros Occidental, and 322 in other locations this year.

The Department of Health is the lead implementing agency, identifying the strategic areas where Super Health Centers will be constructed.

It’s a significant step towards enhanced health care services, aimed at bringing closer government health services to the people, Go said.

Also a vice chairman of the Senate committee on Finance, Go also vowed to push for more budget for Super Health and Regional Specialty Centers, assistance to indigent patients, as well as sufficient and modern equipment for health facilities, when Congress deliberates the 2024 national budget.

Silay City Mayor Joedith Gallego disclosed that the super health center has a budget of P10 million. He added that Go also distributed P3,000 each to 2,000 Silay fisherfolk and farmers through the Department of Social Welfare and Development.*

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