18 healthcare workers in VSMMC are COVID positive

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/05/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — All the operating rooms at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) have been closed down after 18 healthcare workers have proven positive for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) The VSMMC administration released…

DOH-7 notes ‘slight increase’ in firecracker injuries amid pandemic

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/26/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that resulted in the implementation of wide-scale quarantine restrictions, the regional health office in Central Visayas recorded a slight increase in the number of firecracker-related injuries.…

Frontliners in Cebu City tie knot amid pandemic

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A love story right out of a pandemic. Such is the marriage of 37-year-old Sylvester Ray Ortega, and 30-year-old Michelle Ann Ouano from Barangay Mabolo in Cebu City, who tied the knot in…

Dialysis Center for non-COVID-19 patients in Cebu City to open on Aug. 14

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/12/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A dialysis center for non-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients will open in a mall at the South Road Properties here starting August 14, 2020. The dialysis center will be managed by the Vicente…

Cebu City urges watchers of VSMMC patients to go home

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/29/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is urging watchers of patients admitted at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) to go home. The city’s spokesperson, Rey Gealon, said the city government has agreed with…

VSMMC urges compassion for COVID-19 patients amidst suicide incident

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center has expressed sadness over the suicide incident of one of its Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. The patient, a 48-year old male,…

At the COVID war zone: Working in a molecular laboratory

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/18/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Every medical technologist has been taught to be prepared to face a pandemic. Nobody is actually prepared for it to happen. This was the statement of 25-year-old John Marc Abarquez, a medical technologist…

In Cebu City, state hospital asks help from other hospitals, health facilities

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Patients bound for the emergency department of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) may have to wait inside ambulances for a while. This developed after the hospital administration announced through Facebook that…

Molecular lab at VSMMC ready for Covid-19 testing

Delta Letigio 03/20/2020

Cebu City, Philippines—The molecular laboratory at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center here can begin testing for samples for the coronavirus, but the tests are limited.  This was divulged during a press conference headed by Cebu City…

Medical assistance for poor and indigent patients in Cebu’s 6th and 4th Districts

Norman V. Mendoza 01/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Poor and indigent patients from the province’s 6th and 4th Districts can now avail of improved medical services in more government health facilities. This after 6th District Representative Emmarie Lolypop Ouano Dizon signed…

Rough Seas: 4 from Olango Island transported to mainland Lapu for medical treatment

Doris C. Bongcac 08/05/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–While other travellers remained stranded in the different ports of Lapu-Lapu City, four patients admitted at the Olango Community Hospital in Olango Island were allowed to sail to mainland Cebu Monday afternoon, August 5, 2019,…

Bong Go not ready for Senate

Morexette Erram 05/01/2018

  CEBU CITY–“I’m not ready to run for Senator.” This was the pronouncement of Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go when asked if he planned to run for senator in 2019. “Sayo pa kaayo…

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