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Philippine General Hospital on Taft Avenue in Manila was opened to the public in September 1910 with 330 beds. Created to attend to poor sick Filipinos, PGH was built at a cost of around P780,000. Today, the hospital has a bed capacity of 1,500. It has 19 clinical departments and around 4,000 employees.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research