TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government of Leyte through the leadership of Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla and the city government of Ormoc through the leadership of Mayor Eric Codilla is coming up with the Memorandum of Agreement for the turn-over of management operation of the Ormoc District Hospital (ODH).
“There are still things that we need to iron-out as what provincial administrator Vincent Emnas and Leyte Provincial Hospital Chief Doctor Erlinda Astorga,” said Leyte 3rd District Board Member and Committee on Health Chairman Bernard Jonathan Remandaban in an interview.
Among these issues are the staffing pattern, whether the city government will absorb the present medical staff of the ODH and who will pay for the salaries of the medical staff and hospital personnel of the ODH once the provincial government transfers the management of the hospital to the city government of Ormoc.
Remandaban added that another issue that needs to be settled is on the hospital equipment as there are equipment that are owned by the provincial government and the Department of Health that are being used by the ODH.
At present, Remandaban said that another meeting with the provincial administrator, the city mayor of Ormoc and the members of the committee on health of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan together with the chief of the LPH for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding that will take effect to form this month until June of this year.
Then a MOA will be signed by both parties that will take effect from the month of June until December, where it will stipulate all details on what is going to happen to the staff, salaries and equipment of the hospital which is being studied by the provincial legal office.
In this plan to transfer the management of ODH to the city government of Ormoc, Remandaban stressed that when the governor had started its program to rehabilitate and upgrade hospitals in the province, it has been his plan to transfer the management of community and district hospital to the local government units where they are located.
This is part of the provincial government way to strengthen the capability and operation of hospitals run by the provincial government of Leyte to ensure that they could attend the medical and health needs of all Leyteños.
According to Remandaban, about P50 million is allocated by the provincial government of Leyte for the ODH every year as its subsidy. (ROEL AMAZONA)
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