Here's another addition to Davao's new development focusing on health and wellness with modern facility ....


Davao bizmen putting up P300-M medical research center

DAVAO CITY, Sept. 11 (PNA) -- A group of Filipino-Chinese businessmen here is opening up a medical center after seeing the lack of hospital beds at the height of dengue outbreak in the city recently.

Metro Davao Medical and Research Center (MDMR) medical director doctor Yvette Yenco-Tan said the group of businessmen here just want to offer health care facilities and good medical service to the people of Davao with a starting capital expenditure of P300 million.

She said MDMR would be fully operational before the year ends. A soft opening of the hospital’s ancillary services will be held on Sept. 16.

Although she did not name all the owners, Tan said Sammy Uy, president of Limso Medical Center here, was one of the owners and when they (owners) bought the old Cuison Hotel, their intention was to put up a business that would support the people of Davao on the health aspect.

She said they wanted to complement with the other hospitals operating here and in fact, the MDMR is just one block away from the government-owned Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC).

Aside from operating as a hospital, Tan said the center would also house doctors’ clinics where 161 physicians would open their respective clinics to the public next week with varied specialization from pediatrics, EENT (ear, eye, nose and throat), dermatology, general medicine, internist, obstetrics and gynecology and others field.

She said they were looking at operating it as medical service and wellness center even as she said it would also offer all care physical therapy and wellness rehab services.

The MDMR, she said, would have a clinical research component that cater on chronic illnesses. It is designed with modern architecture sporting vibrant colors to make the environment alive.

There will also be several food kiosks just like what can be seen in malls, she said. (PNA) 

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The government steps up campaign on TB cure if only to help those afflicted with the disease get treatment for free.

TB doctor urges patients to avail of free medicines

DAVAO CITY (PNA) -– A tuberculosis (TB) treatment center physician here is urging patients to avail free medicines for drug-resistant TB patients which are now available at the regional office of the Department of Health (DOH) Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis here.

Lilian Suemith, treatment center physician here, said the five-year TB program funded by the Global fund aims to help patients in Mindanao. The center is located at the old out-patients building of the Southern Philippine Medical Center (SPMC) along J.P. Laurel Ave, this city.

Suemith said the treatment center has been open since 2009 and there has been more than 200 patients treated or checked while 57 patients are being treated for drug resistant TB.

"We are on active case filing and we are urging those who are suffering from the disease to go to the center," she said.

Suemith said the center is giving for free an 18-month treatment as compared to a regular six to eight months treatment period which costs P200 to P300 for one patient, in private health facilities.

The center has signed a memorandum of agreement with local government units in assisting TB patients with their transportation to and from the center, she said. (PNA) 

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