Hospital for poor children goes up in Davao
SOURCE: Judy Quiros
Cure International's first hospital in Asia, which will offer free orthopedic surgical services for poor and disabled children, will soon rise here.
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SOURCE: Judy Quiros
Cure International's first hospital in Asia, which will offer free orthopedic surgical services for poor and disabled children, will soon rise here.
It will be the 12th such facility of the Philadelphia-based group in the world. Cure, founded by philanthropists Dr. Scott and Sally Harrison 10 years ago, operates hospitals for poor children in several countries.
Sonia Reyes, authorized representative and consultant of Cure International Philippines, told reporters here Wednesday that Cure International will initially spend $2.5 million for the construction of a four-story hospital on a 700-square-meter property in Lanang, Davao City.
The construction of the 30-bed “high-quality medical facility” will start in June and it is expected to be operational two years later, she said.
“It’s really a blessing for Mindanao and Davao City because it was chosen in the whole of Asia by Cure International to build its 12th children’s hospital in Third-World countries,” Reyes said.
The construction of the Cure facility here was made possible through the lobbying of Sacred Heart Foundation, which pledged $1.9 million for the project. Sacred Heart Foundation attends to the needs of poor children and families in Mindanao.
“They expressed an interest in possibly funding a significant part of the cost of a Cure hospital for Mindanao,” Reyes said.
She said the hospital will offer free medical assistance including major surgical services, to indigent children from Mindanao with orthopedic problems. These include medical services for those suffering from congenital limb anomalies, post-trauma fracture and burn, clubfoot, bone infection and other orthopedic-related care.
She said adult orthopedic patients will also be admitted at the hospital but they have to pay for the services rendered to them.
Reyes said another benefit the hospital could bring to Mindanao is employment as the facility will initially require qualified applicants from Davao City and elsewhere in Mindanao.
Reyes said Cure has forged agreements with local government units in Mindanao in relation to its operation.
The local government units will handle the monitoring and screening of indigent children in terms of their economic status, residences and other needed data to avail of the hospital’s free medical services, she said.
Since its first hospital was opened in Kenya in 1998, Cure has seen over one million patients and performed over 78,000 life-changing and life-saving surgeries on disabled children, Reyes said.
There are currently 11 Cure hospitals operating in 10 countries including one in Nigeria.
Sonia Reyes, authorized representative and consultant of Cure International Philippines, told reporters here Wednesday that Cure International will initially spend $2.5 million for the construction of a four-story hospital on a 700-square-meter property in Lanang, Davao City.
The construction of the 30-bed “high-quality medical facility” will start in June and it is expected to be operational two years later, she said.
“It’s really a blessing for Mindanao and Davao City because it was chosen in the whole of Asia by Cure International to build its 12th children’s hospital in Third-World countries,” Reyes said.
The construction of the Cure facility here was made possible through the lobbying of Sacred Heart Foundation, which pledged $1.9 million for the project. Sacred Heart Foundation attends to the needs of poor children and families in Mindanao.
“They expressed an interest in possibly funding a significant part of the cost of a Cure hospital for Mindanao,” Reyes said.
She said the hospital will offer free medical assistance including major surgical services, to indigent children from Mindanao with orthopedic problems. These include medical services for those suffering from congenital limb anomalies, post-trauma fracture and burn, clubfoot, bone infection and other orthopedic-related care.
She said adult orthopedic patients will also be admitted at the hospital but they have to pay for the services rendered to them.
Reyes said another benefit the hospital could bring to Mindanao is employment as the facility will initially require qualified applicants from Davao City and elsewhere in Mindanao.
Reyes said Cure has forged agreements with local government units in Mindanao in relation to its operation.
The local government units will handle the monitoring and screening of indigent children in terms of their economic status, residences and other needed data to avail of the hospital’s free medical services, she said.
Since its first hospital was opened in Kenya in 1998, Cure has seen over one million patients and performed over 78,000 life-changing and life-saving surgeries on disabled children, Reyes said.
There are currently 11 Cure hospitals operating in 10 countries including one in Nigeria.
