The contractor of the Cebu City Medical Center project has complied with the requirements and has been given the go-signal by the Cebu City government to resume work on the project.
(CDN FILE)
AFTER complying with the requirements, contractor of the construction of the new Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) was given the go-signal by the Cebu City government to resume work on the project.
Cebu City Councilor Mary Ann De los Santos, who was appointed by Mayor Tomas Osmena as the city’s deputy mayor for hospital services, said the project contractor C.E. Padilla Construction had been allowed to resume work after complying with the documentary requirements.
“To begin with, construction was temporarily suspended as it had no building permit. The temporary suspension was well spent. We practically covered all these and corrected the apparent flaws and addressed the important concerns which would affect the CCMC during its operational lifetime,” De los Santos said yesterday.
She said that Office of the Building Official (OBO) chief Josefa Ylanan had allowed the contractor to resume the construction of the CCMC after complying with the requirements including the building permit.
Ylanan said that after complying with the requirements, OBO would release the permits within 10 to 15 days.
She said that even if the permits had not yet been officially issued, the contractor could already resume their work, since they had submitted the documents which the OBO already checked.
Construction of the new CCMC was ordered stopped last June after then acting mayor Margarita Osmeña found out that the contract had no permits. There were also problems on road encroachment with one of the building’s foundations.
De Los Santos also said that the contractor agreed with the mayor’s earlier plan that after completing the first five floors of the 10-story building, it should already be operational.
“That has been discussed. The contractor was asked if they can do it. They said they can, and that there’s no problem in doing it,” she said.
She said that although they did not have a specific target yet, they hoped the first phase of the project would be finished by 2017.
It was earlier reported that the first phase of the project was already around 40 percent complete.
“Presently, it is a dream that is not too far to become a reality now. With the collaborative compassion of the Cebu City constituents, the City Council, and this administration headed by Mayor Tommy Osmeña, CCMC will rise,” she said.