Marinduque: Abolishment of Torrijos Municipal Hospital! (Like a thief in the night)

-2010-

The alleged closure of Torrijos Municipal Hospital for improvements of Sta Cruz District and Damian Reyes Hospital in Boac are feared undesirable for the common folks in the south as their constitutional rights to a BASIC HEALTH SERVICES from the Provincial Government will soon be taken away in the community.   

Torrijos Municipal Hospital Employees 

Two top officials of the province (including a Board Member from 2nd District) and some provincial health officials were among others behind the pronouncement aired by Radyo Natin-Boac local news last September.  Dr. Bacorro of Sta. Cruz District Hospital made the same statement as well.

The Torrijos Municipal Hospital obtained the required option by the Department Of Health (DOH) on ACCESSIBILITY, EFFICIENCY, QUALITY, EQUITY and AVAILABILITY. Although the said "Primary Hospital" had only 10 beds capacity and has a limited health services the DOH had nothing to do on the idea of eliminating the HEALTH SERVICES as the BASIC needs in the locality.

Marinduque has a totaled bed capacity of 135 for the population of more than two hundred thousand; 100 beds in Provincial Hospital, 25 beds in the District of Sta. Cruz and 10 beds in Torrijos. DOH requires a standard bed capacity of 1:1,000 ratios. With 28,000 of its population In Torrijos the ratio is 1:2,619 per bed.  

Torrijos Municipal Hospital was categorized as Primary Hospital-level 1, Sta. Cruz District Hospital-level 2, while the Damian Reyes (Provincial Hospital) is a Secondary Hospital.  

Mayor Gil Briones, Municipal Mayor of Torrijos and the legislative body, including the League of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) had already made a resolution on the issue at hand.

The BASIC SERVICES are REQUIREMENTS to every Filipino anywhere in the country, whether you are in the smallest island the needs is BASIC. It is their constitutional rights to benefit from it.

The rumored issue was DENIED by the Provincial Government and it was “confirmed” from a local cable TV in Boac that there’s no allegation of closure at all (why not in Torrijos?). 

Puzzled?

What possibly could have been if BASIC SERVICES--the health-- has been taken away from these local folks?


Apparently, the previous administration strengthen these basic services by providing them beneficial option to reduced poverty in a way.  

Torrijos had a totaled 28, ooo population. Most of them were just common and ordinary folks; where in numbers there's strength in needs.

The local officials stand-out on the issue that people here should be thankful and realized it was a job well done.