After nearly five years of delay, construction for the four-story building expansion of the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital starts in Koronadal City this week. /PDI
“This project is long overdue, but we’re happy that the construction will now finally start,” Vice Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. said during the site’s blessing and groundbreaking ceremony.
But construction was deferred due to problems with the proposed site behind the SCPH Complex, where the DOH and the provincial government held the project groundbreaking in 2010.But in July that year, after a project review and upon his assumption to office, South Cotabato Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. pushed for the transfer of the proposed site from the crowded SCPH complex to the Productivity and Technology or Protech Center compound just across the street.
He said the allotted area had no evacuation site in case of earthquakes, and construction of the building there would cause the demolition of the hospital’s supply building, gymnasium, and septic tanks of at least 40 comfort rooms.“When that happens, at least 100 rooms will not be operational during the construction phase, and we cannot sacrifice that,” he told reporters.
Pingoy said the project’s status became uncertain as the issue on its site became “politicized.” Allies of the former Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes, Tamayo’s rival in the 2019 elections, had opposed the site’s transfer. Fuentes approved the project in 2018, before she lost her bid for a third straight term to Tamayo in 2019.
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