Officials of the Department of Health (DOH) visited Bohol to inspect priority project sites of the said department.
First district Cong. Edgar Chatto hosted a dinner for the visiting officials of the DoH.
In a post on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, the congressman’s wife Balilihan mayor Pureza Chatto said that the priority projects aim to strengthen Bohol’s health system.
Mayor Chatto said the top officials of the said department who paid a visit to Bohol are DoH chief of the health facility expansion program Dr. Leonita Gorgolon, head of the DoH legal office, Atty. Charade Mercado Grande, and former Health Secretary now DoH consultant Dr. Paulyn Jean Ubial.
Moreover, the team from the DoH was accompanied by the medical center chief of the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH), Dr. Mutya Kismet Macuno.
Among the priority projects discussed during the meeting, according to Mayor Pureza, are the ongoing modernization and expansion of the GCGMH in Tagbilaran City and in Cortes town, proposed dialysis center at the Tubigon Community Hospital, and the future site of the Bohol Island State University College of Medicine, where the college’s building inside the GCCMH compound is now in phase 2 of its construction.