THE Senate on Wednesday approved on second reading a bill setting up specialty centers in Department of Health regional hospitals, in a bid to decongest long queues of patients from all over the country seeking advanced treatment in the Philippine Heart Center and similar specialty institutions in Metro Manila.
Zubiri said he recently issued several endorsement letters for constituents from Mindanao in urgent need of treatment at the PHC. Go explained in his sponsorship speech that the bill aims to establish specialty centers in select DoH hospitals throughout the country, with mental health services among the specialties included.
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