TACLOBAN CITY- Samar Governor Sharee Ann Tan-de los Santos has said that birthing centers would be put up in her province on top of her plan to rehabilitate all its existing district hospitals.
With better health facilities operating in the province, health problems stalking Samar like malnutrition and high maternal and infant mortality rate can be given proper solution, Tan-de los Santos said.
The governor said that she plans to put up birthing centers in at least seven towns in the province. She, however, declined to identify the areas where the planned birthing centers are to be established.
“We are going to observe first the output of the birthing centers that is going to be established in the seven selected municipalities before the provincial government could provide birthing centers in all local government units in our province,” Tan-de los Santos said.
Mayor Mario Quijano of Pinabacdao town had earlier proposed to her to extend the town’s rural health unit to include a birthing center, Tan- de los Santos said.
The Samar governor said that based on her discussion with health officials, a birthing facility would cost at least P1.7 million.
“But according to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. representatives, there is no need to source out such kind of amount in establishing this kind of facility for we can use the capitation that we can get from them,” Tan-de los Santos said.
The governor, however, clarified that not all amount from the capitation that the provincial government would receive from Philhealth would be used for the construction of birthing centers and in the rehabilitation of district hospitals in the province. (ROEL AMAZONA)
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