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…

Labella: More dialysis centers in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is hoping that more dialysis centers will rise in Cebu City in the near future. Labella said that the establishment of two dialysis centers in the city, one…

Register at VSMMC for access to new dialysis centers in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letiigo 08/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Patients, who wish to avail of the hemodialysis center in Cebu City, will no longer have to wait long. There are two new dialysis centers in Cebu City that will begin to operate…

Cebu City to continuously assist watchers at VSMMC

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/24/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippine — The Cebu City government will continuously assist the watchers of COVID-19 patients waiting outside the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) at the Fuente Osmeña Circle. Cebu City spokesperson Rey Gealon said the…

Labella requests for hemodialysis units for VSMMC

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is asking the Department of Health (DOH) to provide the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) with hemodialysis units so the hospital can accommodate dialysis patients amid the…

PRO-7 coordinating with hospitals after VSMMC incident

Immae Lachica 06/10/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines— Police Brigadier General Albert Ignatius Ferro, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said that they are now working closely with hospitals and health facilities in the region following an…

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,…

City dad to COVID-19 patients: Don’t be scared to seek help for mental health concerns

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The death of a 45-year-old coronavirus patient from Barangay Labangon, who reportedly jumped off from one of the buildings of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC), should be a wake-up call to…

Police says no foul play found in VSMMC incident

Immae Lachica 06/09/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines— Police found no foul play in the incident at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, wherein a patient leaped to death from the third floor of the building. The…

COVID-19 patient dies after jumping from hospital window

Immae Lachica 06/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—A  male patient of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) was seen breaking the glass window of the isolation room which he shared with other coronavirus disease patients on the third floor of one…

VSMMC: No visitors, watchers allowed to prevent ‘possible’ cross contamination

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — To strengthen measures against “possible cross-contamination,” no visitor or watcher of admitted patients will already be allowed to enter the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) beginning noon of Tuesday, June 9, 2020.…

New mom in Moalboal among new COVID-19 cases

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A mother in Moalboal town, who has recently given birth at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC), is among the new COVID-19 cases in Cebu province as of Monday, June 1, 2020.…

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