Heart center for the North in Candon

February 10, 2020 Headlines

Candon is expected to have a new hospital by April. Rep. Kristine Singson Meehan said that the hospital, a satellite of the Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center (ITRMC) in San Fernando City, will soon be specializing in coronary diseases. “It will be the heart center of the North,” Rep Meehan said.
Although it will cater mainly to patients from the provinces of Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte and Abra. Its specialty will soon serve the whole Northern Luzon.
The two-storey main building which will house the 100-bed emergency room and the outpatient department, with a total cost of P61.61-million and P86.44-million, respectively.
There will also be a two-storey Radiology Building worth P28.96-million in the center. The ITRMC satellite hospital compound will also have its own rehabilitation building, dialysis building, administrative and records building, dietary building, and maintenance building.
Meehan said that Candon’s strategic location will mean it can cater as far as Pangasinan and Ilocos Norte.

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