ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The government-run Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) is hiring additional personnel as it was recently upgraded to an 800-bed from 500-bed capacity.
Dr. Afdal Kunting, ZCMC spokesperson, on Thursday said the additional personnel and bed capacity aims to better serve the public.
Kunting said the additional personnel to be hired include physicians, nurses and other hospital staffs.
Kunting said the additional 300 beds will be allocated for the specialty center such as the Neuro Center, Cardiac Center, Cancer Center, and Trauma Center.
He said they are rushing the completion of the four-storey building, known as the Tower 1, that would house the different centers.
ZCMC is also serving patients from nearby areas in the region to include Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, which is already part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
ZCMC serves some 1,200 patients daily through its Out-Patient Department alone. It is one of the government-run hospitals directly managed by the Department of Health (DOH).
Others are the Mindanao Central Sanitarium; Labuan Hospital; Basilan General Hospital; Dr. Jose Rizal Memorial Hospital; Margosatubig Regional Hospital, and Sulu Sanitarium. (PNA)
Zamboanga hospital upgraded to 800-bed capacity
By R. G. Antonet Go
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