Guv: Keep Cebu’s largest hospital public

CEBU CITY — A plan to privatize Cebu’s largest government hospital has drawn opposition from the province’s top officials, although the Provincial Board deferred taking a position in order to study the proposal more thoroughly.
“If it ain’t broke, why fix it?” quipped Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, referring to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC).
The VSMMC, which the Department of Health runs, is one of 26 hospitals nationwide whose turnover to the private sector is being considered.
The Provincial Board (PB), in its regular session Monday, deferred a resolution opposing the proposal. They want a copy of the bill before they consider whether or not to pass their resolution, said Vice Governor Agnes Magpale, the presiding officer.
She said most of the province’s legislators, including PB committee on health chair Sergio Restauro, are against the privatization move.
Interviewed separately, the governor said that if the VSMMC were to be privatized, Cebu “would lose a public regional hospital that is now so well-managed and efficiently run, and that is an important point.”
She pointed out the hospital has become capable of procedures like heart bypass surgery, at a fraction of what private hospital would charge.
“I speak for and in behalf of our constituents that are now enjoying the top-level services of Vicente Sotto, at a fraction of the price that they would otherwise have paid had they gone to a private hospital,” the governor said in a press conference.
Bacolod City Representative Anthony Golez and Negros Occidental Representative Alfredo Marañon III are the principal authors of House Bill 6099.
Representative Benhur Salimbangon (Cebu Province, fourth district) earlier said he will lobby before the Senate to reject the bill. He was a member of the committee on health in the Lower House, but was outvoted during the deliberation of the bill last week.
At the PB session on Monday, Restauro sponsored a resolution opposing the bill, but the board deferred it until they examine the details of the proposal.
Though privatization might improve the quality of service in these hospitals, both Restauro and PB Member Thadeo Ouano shared the observation that the poor might lose access to the hospital’s services.
Ouano said the PB needs to study the advantages privatization might confer.
PB Member Ian Zambo requested his colleagues to defer approving or rejecting the resolution “until we get a copy of the proposed law.”
PB Member Julian Daan asked what would happen to the aid the hospital receives, like equipment or shares of the congressional Priority Development Assistance Funds, if it is operated by the private sector.
Another matter that will need to be ironed out is what would happen to donated buildings or facilities, the governor said.
The Cebu Court of First Instance cooperative, one of the biggest cooperatives of government employees in the Visayas, has, for example, donated a 20-bedroom building to the VSMMC.
The governor said the VSMMC has made a complete turn-around and it “has been serving as a regional hospital that addresses the needs not just of Cebu but the entire region.”
She finds the facilities, equipment and medical personnel at par with that of topnotch private hospitals.
The Province works with the VSMMC in coordinating services in birthing centers of the towns and component cities. The Provincial Government has also set up an emergency response system.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2012/05/22/guv-keep-cebu-s-largest-hospital-public-222724

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