Newly built oxygen generating plant turned over to Negros Or. hospital

The construction of an oxygen generating plant at the compound of the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH) has been completed and turned over to the provincial government on Wednesday.

The building contractor turned the plant over to the provincial engineer and to Governor Roel Degamo, and then to the new management of NOPH, headed by Dr. Mark Llosa, in ceremonies held at the site.

The plant is capable of supplying oxygen to all the rooms of the newly completed Central Block Building, while plans are now set to sell the rest of the supply to community, district and private hospitals in the province at a lower price.

This would mean a lot of savings for the provincial government aside from giving indigent patients the same kind of services, if not more than the services extended to patients in private hospitals, said the governor.

Degamo, however, reminded that quality equipment and facilities should come hand in hand with good, efficient and quality services, as he demanded from the health personnel a service with a smile to all the patients at the provincial hospital and in all community and primary hospitals in the province.

The governor told employees of the hospital system in the province to be part of the change that his administration wants, such as to give their best and quality service to the patients and clients. He further urged doctors and nurses to serve their patients with happy faces, as they would not be in that hospital if not of the patients.

Aside from the oxygen generating plant, Degamo reported that the NOPH has acquired a brand new MRI, and is now expecting for the arrival of a new CT scan, and a new incubator system, among others.

Degamo wanted the NOPH to be at par if not more sophisticated than the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City. He said he wanted the provincial hospital to be a medical center, and an early detection facility for cancer cells, given the complete set of equipment.