TACLOBAN CITY- The proposal to have an annex hospital of the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in Samar should first be consulted to her.
So says Governor Sharee Anne Tan-de los Santos when asked on the proposal of Representative Mel Senen Sarmiento to put up an annex hospital of the EVRMC on the province.
“He should have told the province first on his plan,” de los Santos said in a chance interview on Saturday here in Tacloban.
“Unfortunately he didn’t do it. We only learned about his proposal when it reached Congress that is why we have opposed his bill,” she added.
Sarmiento, a political opponent of the governor, has proposed that an EVRMC annex be constructed in Catbalogan City due to the alleged poor health services of the Samar Provincial Hospital mainly due to lack of medical supplies and staff.
The Samar solon also argued that with an EVRMC annex in the province, the people in the province who need medical assistance need not go to Tacloban where the EVRMC, the largest government-run hospital in the region, is located
“They should have informed us first with regards to his plan so that we can discuss with him or tell him if what our opinion on his proposed bill is,” de los Santos said.
She also revealed that even the Department of Health is not in agreement on the proposal of Sarmiento.
Having an EVRMC annex in Samar would only drain their financial resources further, de los Santos said, referring to the reason of the DOH why it also reportedly opposes on the plan.
“I don’t know why he made such action and why he wanted to pass the responsibility for the management of the hospital to the DOH,” the Samar governor added.
In earlier interview with Rep.Sarmiento, he explained that said proposal to make the CDH as an annex hospital of the EVRMC to serve patients from the first district of Samar to include those who are from Northern Samar.
Sarmiento added that he had also considered the long travel time that patients would need why he made the proposal. (ROEL AMAZONA)
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