CCMC earns more but didn’t hit target

CEBU, Philippines - Despite the Oct. 15 earthquake that disrupted its operations, the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) still managed to increase its 2013 revenue by around P200,000.

Dr. Gloria Duterte, CCMC chief, said their revenues last year rose to P67.62 million compared to P67.47 million in 2012. However, she said, they did not attain their P120-million target.

She said that of the amount, P11 million was earned in August, P11 million in September, P5 million in October, P1 million in November, and P2 million in December.

“Despite the current situation sa atong hospital daghan kaayo ang magpa-admit,” Duterte said. As of last Thursday, CCMC has 112 admitted patients.

Duterte said that for 2014, their target revenue was set at P100 million.

Last year, CCCM attended to 54,450 out-patients (82 percent) and 12,457 (18 percent) admitted patients for a total of 68,007 persons.

CCMC currently operates temporarily in a 108-bed capacity at the Bureau of Fire Protection building across the condemned hospital building that used to accommodate 300 beds.

Due to its limited beds, other patients were referred and transferred to other hospitals like the Saint Anthony Mother and Child Hospital, Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, Barangay Guva community hospital, among others.

Although, is space has shrunk down, CCMC still attends to its usual daily average of 240 to 250 patients at the Out-patient Department (OPD) and 140 at the Emergency room (ER).

Duterte also said that with 124 CCMC employees were deployed to the Saint Anthony Mother and Child Hospital, Cebu City Health Department, Office of the City Civil registrar, and the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.

Meanwhile, the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), represented by Senior Supt. Noli Romana, raised P70,700 in donations for the construction of a new CCMC building that the CCPO director handed to Mayor Michael Rama yesterday.

The amount was collected from the both uniformed and non-uniformed CCPO personnel.

Romana said donating the amount was their way of giving back to the people from whom they owe their service.

“When we received our city incentive allowance, the first thing that came to our mind was how to show our gratitude and be able to help also the people of Cebu City in our own little way,” he said.

PInsp Reslyn Abella, CCPO public information officer, said that CCMC, being a city hall-run public hospital, has helped in their medical needs.

“As partners in nation building, helping the CCMC build its new and sturdy building has been a source of inspiration among the personnel of CCPO, because in so helping it meant giving hope to the people that soon they will have a new and modernized hospital,” she said, in a press statement.— /RHM (FREEMAN)