CITY hall has to comply with the requirements of the health department if the J. R. Borja Memorial Hospital is to remain a hospital.
“They (local government) must comply with all DOH requirements,” said Health Secretary Francisco Duque during a news conference on Friday.
He said this when he was told by a radio reporter that the [...]
I AM one of the 18 (or possibly more) doctors who resigned from the JR Borja General Hospital last month. I am writing to express disgust on a news item aired over ABS-CBN last Monday (July 1, 2009), in which our own mayor, Constantino Jaraula, said the physicians who tendered their resignations did so because [...]
MAYOR Constantino Jaraula on Tuesday vowed to fight so city hall could keep the JR Borja Memorial Hospital even as he called ‘‘malicious’’ moves to place the institution under the state-run Northern Min-danao Medical Center (NMMC).
Jaraula also called ‘‘ignorant’’ those who have criticized city hall over the way it has been running the JR Borja [...]
Cagayan De Oro City (30 June) — City Mayor Constantino G. Jaraula debunked criticisms that medical and hospital services are not getting fair attention from City Hall, saying that the city government is spending this year over P200 million for the J.R. Borja Memorial City Hospital and the City Health Office.
“All in all in health, [...]
18 resign amid low pay, lack of facilities, drugs
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines—More than half of the number of doctors at a government hospital here have quit over low pay, long working hours, and lack of facilities and medicines, it was learned Wednesday.
The resignations came one after the other, and the news first came out [...]
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