Regional Infectious Disease building of VSMMC breaks ground

Futch Anthony Inso 08/29/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center held a groundbreaking and capsule-laying ceremony for the construction of the Regional Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine (RIDTM) building on Thursday afternoon, August 29, 2024. The activity…

Suicide: Probe ongoing on patient killed after falling from hospital building

Morexette Marie Erram 04/11/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Authorities are investigating the death of a patient who died from an apparent suicide after jumping from one of the buildings of a government hospital on Thursday, April 11. Police in Cebu City…

Cobra bites: Where to get antivenom treatment when bitten by a venomous snake in Cebu

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 08/14/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Despite the absence of commercially available antivenom treatment in the city, they can still receive antivenom treatment in this hospital in Cebu City. According to Dr. Beethoven Bongon, toxicologist of the Vicente Sotto…

15 dialysis patients start treatment sessions in Lapu-Lapu hospital

Futch Anthony Inso 04/13/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Some dialysis patients from Lapu-Lapu City have already started their dialysis sessions at ARC Hospital in Barangay Agus, Lapu-Lapu City. This was confirmed by Lawyer Apple Collados, chief of staff of Lapu-Lapu City…

Lapu-Lapu plans to open free dialysis center by April — Mayor Chan

Futch Anthony Inso 03/13/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — By April, the Lapu-Lapu City government will have its own dialysis center for Oponganon patients. This developed after the Lapu-Lapu City government entered into a joint venture agreement with a private firm to…

Dialysis patients to be referred to other  facilities during construction of new building in VSMMC

Futch Anthony Inso 03/10/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) assured dialysis outpatients who would be displaced during the construction of the new Renal Care and Transplant building of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) that…

Patients worry about VSMMC’s move to temporarily stop outpatient dialysis in April

Futch Anthony Inso 03/06/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Dialysis patients from Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) have expressed their worries as the hospital’s Renal Care and Transplant Center will temporarily not accept outpatients to give way to the construction of…

Father of Malasakit Centers visits VSMMC’s facility on its 5th anniversary

Futch Anthony Inso 02/10/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go visited the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, to join in the celebration of the VSMMC Malasakit Center’s 5th anniversary. Go was considered…

Daanbantayan accident: 2 men hurt after ‘drunk’ tricycle driver crashes into them from behind

Paul Lauro 10/15/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The man, who sideswiped two young men with his tricycle along the national highway in Barangay Poblacion, Daanbantayan town in the afternoon of Oct. 14, was believed to be drunk or under the…

Councilor wants VSMMC waiting area for patients’ guardians

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 09/17/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council has called for its Committee on Health, Hospital Services, and Sanitation to provide a waiting area for persons accompanying patients at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC). The…

City provides shelter for street dwellers to spend the night

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 09/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Homeless residents of Cebu City need not spend the night on dangerous roadsides or sidewalks. Department of Social Welfare and Services-Cebu City officer-in-charge Ester Concha revealed that the city government has allocated a…

Capitol to look into hospitals, ‘lazy’ doctors who refer patients to VSMMC

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/29/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Capitol will be looking into provincial and district hospitals, as well as doctors, who refer patients from the province with manageable cases to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) instead of…

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