The San Lorenzo Ruiz General Hospital in Malabon City has been upgraded to a Level 2 general hospital with modern facilities and expanded services to cater to more residents.
Mayor Jeannie Sandoval on Monday led the inauguration of the six-story, 200-bed hospital along Panghulo Road.
The hospital features operating rooms, a labor room, an intensive care unit, a surgery consultation room, an emergency room and a spacious lobby.
‘Through the support of our partners and the initiative of former congressman Ricky Sandoval, we now have a more modern hospital that can provide comprehensive services for more Malabueños. This assures our people of better health care alongside the city’s other programs,’ Sandoval said.
The medical facility will offer departmentalized services in medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery and anesthesiology.
It is equipped with MRI, CT scan, ultrasound, X-ray, 2D echo, colposcopy machines, therapy services and a clinical laboratory.
The local government said it would acquire a digital fluoroscopy machine, a digital C-arm machine and hystero-laparoscopy equipment.
The former congressman filed House Bill 5791 in the 17th Congress that paved the way for the expansion of the hospital.
‘It is a milestone for Malabon. From a small women’s hospital, it is now a Level 2 general hospital ready to provide quality medical services to our people,’ he said.
Founded in 1990 as the San Lorenzo Ruiz Municipal Hospital, the facility evolved into the San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital in 1998 before being converted into a general hospital under Republic Act 11289 in 2019.