This is a giant leap for our people courtesy of private health entities and can be considered as a radical response to the disjointed delivery of health care services by both government and private institutions here in Occidental Mindoro, as far as we can remember.
Last January 11, 2022, there was this blessing and groundbreaking of the site for Mindoro Occidental Cooperative Hospital and Medical Center (MOCHMC) in Sitio San Carlos, Brgy. Central, San Jose Occidental Mindoro. The facility is aimed at catering to the growing demands for quality healthcare services in the province. It will be under the auspices of the Mindoro Occidental Medical Mission Group Health Service Cooperative (MOMMGHSC).
The twin ceremony, the blessing, and unveiling were led by Fr. Reymond B. Mulingbayan of St. Joseph Parish in Central, and Mayor Romulo M. Festin of San Jose, respectively. The forthcoming health facility is consists of a 126-bed, Level Two hospital generally considered as a medical center.
According to Dr. Anna Monica R. Bracamonte, President of the Mindoro Occidental Medical Society and CEO MOMMGHSC. The hospital is said to be the first-ever hospital of this type in the province. The facility will be constructed on 1.7-hectare land in said area. In 2 to 3 years, the hospital will be in full operation. In the Philippines, a Level Two hospital offer extra facilities like intensive care unit and specialist doctors, and of course, minimum healthcare services.
This endeavor of establishing a cooperative hospital started some two decades or more ago in Davao City and Tagum City, Davao Del Norte. At first, it was owned not only by the doctors and health professionals but also by all the workers of the hospitals, including utility—as all cooperatives should be. They later extended the ownership of these hospitals to everyone in the community—like the patients and their families. The same thing will happen here and if you are interested, its key officers and the BOD are just a call or a chat away.
That is how the Medical Mission Group Hospitals and Health Services Cooperative (MMGHHSC) came into being. One of the pioneers of the coop hospital in the country is Dr. Jose M. Tiongco, MD who graduated from the UP College of Medicine and later took surgical training at the Philippine General Hospital Department of Surgery. MMGHHSC Philippines Federation, now composed of 22 hospitals and health services primary cooperatives are now scattered in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Indeed, there is a need for active partnerships with private organizations such as cooperatives that support the health needs of the people, especially those who are disadvantaged patients. Since hospitals and health programs do not guarantee a healthy individual and a healthy society, still, the combination of health programs and other social services can help in creating a healthy community.
The MOMMGHSC Medical Plaza started only 8 years ago and has been catering to our people through its medical clinic, pharmacy diagnostic, and dialysis centers and duly registered in Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) since October 2014. For that less than a decade existence, the MOMMGHSC already anticipated and responded to our utmost needs especially now that we are still in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic and other health chaos that we are experiencing. The province had been existing for 71 long years and a hospital of this level was not yet realized and it was a manifestation of how hospitals or health services, in general, are corrupted and neglected in this impoverished country of ours as politicians come and go, both in the national and local levels. But these coop people walk their talk. They targeted it only in 2014, now it’s gradually coming into reality.
Congratulations to you guys!
Needless to say, in our condition that state-of-the-art hospitals cannot be grasped by the poor and the marginalized, this milestone hospital will serve as an extension center for state-run or government-owned healthcare schemes catering not only to stakeholders in Occidental Mindoro but including our neighboring provinces.
Since this is a cooperative, we all can be its owners. Unlike government or other private hospitals in the locality.
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Photo from MOMMGHSC Facebook
Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/104411/ownership-coop-hospitals-open#ixzz7HkKQiJ8x
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