BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Health is eyeing the construction of a mental health hospital in Negros Occidental.
This was revealed by Dr. Mary Ann Maestral, DOH Undersecretary for Visayas, in a phone interview on Wednesday, Oct. 16, a day after a transition team of the DOH-Negros Island Region paid a courtesy call on Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson at the provincial capitol to discuss the implementation of the NIR Act and the creation of the NIR Center for Health Development.
Maestral said that there is no mental health facility in Negros Island and building such facility in the province is her pet project. “That’s why I accepted the position in the DOH because it’s a dream to build such facility and we wanted to achieve it,” she said. Maestral said that the DOH is all set for the transition. She added that they are just awaiting the final the implementing rules and regulations of the NIR Act.She said that they will employ at least 40 personnel for the DOH-NIR and assist local government units and areas with no doctors.
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