MANILA, Philippines—What was once a maternity hospital in Manila is now a general hospital.
The erstwhile Justice Jose Abad Santos Mother and Child Hospital is now the Justice Jose Abad Santos General Hospital after the Department of Health issued it an upgraded license to operate as a tertiary general hospital.
Formerly, the medical institution was a third-level specialty maternity hospital.
The hospital met the requirements of the DoH, which issued the upgraded license to operate through its licensing division office last Feb. 11.
The DoH confirmed the hospital‘s capacity to offer multi-discipline medical services, and its having enough staff, equipment and supplies for it to be upgraded into a general hospital.
The hospital was inaugurated on Dec. 14, 2009. It was the fifth of six hospitals currently owned and operated by the city, the others being the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, Ospital ng Tondo, Gat Andres Bonifacio Hospital, Ospital ng Sampaloc, and Ospital ng Sta. Ana.
“All hospitals extend free medical services to patients and provide free medicines to indigent city residents,” Lim said in a statement on Thursday.
“All transactions and relevant agency-to-agency communications” must use the new hospital name, city administrator Jesus Mari Marzan said in a memorandum to all City Hall departments.