President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos inspects plans for Clark Multi-Specialty Medical Center. (Photo from Jean Mangaluz)
CLARK, Pampanga — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. announced he intends to build more health centers in rural areas.
He expressed his plan as he inspected on Monday the design of a facility called ‘Clark Multi-Specialty Medical Center’ in Pampanga.
The project aims to bring specialized healthcare to Filipinos outside of Metro Manila.
“This is not a single project that stands on its own alone. This part of a larger system of healthcare provision that we are putting together to service our kababayans so that they don’t have to wait to get very, very sick before they go to the big hospitals,” he said during his speech.
“We are bringing healthcare down to the people,” Marcos said.
The President identified his goal of giving poor Filipinos access to medical treatments.
“We will establish rural healthcare units. We will establish barangay centers. We will establish botica de barangay,” he said.
“All of these things we are putting together so that, at least, when it comes to the fundamental healthcare for our countrymen – that, we can say, is readily available to them,” he added.
House Speaker Martin Romualdez and Health Undersecretary Eric Tayag also attended the event.
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