MORE MONEY, MORE BEDS FOR EVERSLEY

News welcomed by residents of the north, especially Liloan which has allocated funds from the town’s coffers to help its patients who are admitted in the Mandaue facility

THE Eversley Childs Sanitarium is now a general hospital, as initiated by Rep. Jonas Cortes (Cebu, 6th district) and signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte.

From 50 beds, the hospital will soon have 200 beds.

Cortes filed Republic Act 11273 to increase the bed capacity of the hospital located in Jagobiao, Mandaue City to serve more people and to increase its capacity.

The bill was a topmost priority of Cortes, who also authored the bill converting Mandaue into a lone district, which Duterte also signed into law.

“I am happy to announce the expansion of services of the Eversley hospital. With the approval of this bill, it is not just the Mandauehanons who will benefit but also a lot of Cebuanos in the north who have been availing of the hospital’s services,” said Cortes, who is running for mayor of Mandaue City against incumbent Luigi Quisumbing in the midterm election on Monday, May 13.

“I am glad that we have successfully pushed for the passage of this bill with just one term in Congress. We thank President Duterte for this,” he added.

With the bill’s passage, the medical facility, which was acting primarily as a hospital for emergency cases and would refer heavier, more complicated medical cases to other tertiary hospitals, will now be officially the Eversley Childs Sanitarium and General Hospital.

The law also mandates the allocation of more funding for the hospital.

The news was welcomed with elation even by residents outside Mandaue City. Many residents of Liloan town, for example, run to Eversley for emergency cases. Upon hearing the news, some netizens from Liloan shared the news on their Facebook accounts.

In fact, the Municipal Government of Liloan led by then mayor Duke Frasco and now Christina Frasco has allocated funds from the municipal coffers to help patients from their town who are admitted in the Mandaue facility.

“It has always been our primary goal to improve the health facilities of the 6th district in order to support our already overloaded Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City, so when I was approached by the administration of Eversley Childs Sanitarium on their hope to increase the bed capacity, I did not hesitate to devote all my efforts as representative of the 6th district to make sure that this will be fulfilled. And in God’s grace, the expansion of Eversley will push through and residents of the 6th district and northern Cebu can avail themselves of medical services from a general hospital near them,” according to Cortes in Cebuano. /