PGH to build UP Diliman hospital in 'social coup'

Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/business/09/01/pgh-2017.jpg?ext=.jpg' ><figcaption>Philippine General Hospital in Manila. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - The Philippine General Hospital is planning to build a branch at the University of the Philippines-Diliman campus in a "social coup" wherein rich and poor patients will be treated no differently, its head said Friday.</p><p>The new 700-bed hospital in Quezon City will be built in the next 6 years and will compliment a "vertical" expansion at the premiere government hospital's current site in downtown Manila, said PGH director Gerardo Legaspi.</p><p>The PGH has budgeted P3 billion to upgrade its facilities. New acquisitions include 3 CATH labs for heart patients, 2 CT scan machines and robotics.</p><p>"That is the social coup that I was thinking of. You'll have 'Triple A' facility where there will be no distinction between private and charity patients," Legaspi said in an exclusive interview with ANC's The Boss.</p><div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/business/09/01/pgh-cathy-2017-090117.jpg?ext=.jpg' ><figcaption>Philippine General Hospital President Gerardo Legaspi speaks to Cathy Yang for ANC's The Boss.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The plan to build a new state hospital in the Diliman campus area was approved by UP President Danilo Concepcion, Legaspi said. The UP system runs the PGH, located beside its old campus in Manila.</p><p>Legaspi said excise tax rates on tobacco and alcohol products, which were last raised in 2012 to help fund public health programs, might need to be increased again.</p><p>"Sin tax" proponents cited recent statistics that showed smoking was on the rise as the middle class becomes wealthier.</p><p>An initial 60-percent increase and subsequent 9-percent adjustments for succeeding years until 2022 would help raise up to P1 billion for the PGH, he said.</p>

<p>"That is the social coup that I was thinking of. You'll have 'Triple A' facility where there will be no distinction between private and charity patients," Legaspi said in an exclusive interview with ANC's The Boss.</p><div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/business/09/01/pgh-cathy-2017-090117.jpg?ext=.jpg' ><figcaption>Philippine General Hospital President Gerardo Legaspi speaks to Cathy Yang for ANC's The Boss.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The plan to build a new state hospital in the Diliman campus area was approved by UP President Danilo Concepcion, Legaspi said. The UP system runs the PGH, located beside its old campus in Manila.</p><p>Legaspi said excise tax rates on tobacco and alcohol products, which were last raised in 2012 to help fund public health programs, might need to be increased again.</p><p>"Sin tax" proponents cited recent statistics that showed smoking was on the rise as the middle class becomes wealthier.</p><p>An initial 60-percent increase and subsequent 9-percent adjustments for succeeding years until 2022 would help raise up to P1 billion for the PGH, he said.</p>

<p>The new 700-bed hospital in Quezon City will be built in the next 6 years and will compliment a "vertical" expansion at the premiere government hospital's current site in downtown Manila, said PGH director Gerardo Legaspi.</p><p>The PGH has budgeted P3 billion to upgrade its facilities. New acquisitions include 3 CATH labs for heart patients, 2 CT scan machines and robotics.</p>

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/business/09/01/pgh-2017.jpg?ext=.jpg' ><figcaption>Philippine General Hospital in Manila. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - The Philippine General Hospital is planning to build a branch at the University of the Philippines-Diliman campus in a "social coup" wherein rich and poor patients will be treated no differently, its head said Friday.</p>

<p>The Philippine General Hospital is planning to build a branch at the University of the Philippines-Diliman campus in a "social coup" wherein rich and poor patients will be treated no differently, its president said Friday.</p>

The Philippine General Hospital is planning to build a branch at the University of the Philippines-Diliman campus in a "social coup" wherein rich and poor patients will be treated no differently, its president said Friday.

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PGH to build UP Diliman hospital in 'social coup'

PGH to build UP Diliman hospital in 'social coup'