The League of Municipalities in Negros Occidental, headed by Valladolid Mayor Bebot Miravalles, and local government units are joining forces to address the woes of hospital watchers, who are banned for now from entering the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.
The LMP intervention was an offshoot of an earlier initiative by Toboso Mayor Richard Jaojoco, who rented a half-way house near the CLMMRH that can accommodate 16 watchers.
Miravalles and Jaojoco inspected today the area which the LMP will be renting. It will be able to accommodate 60 to 70 people at one time.
Hospital watchers earlier complained that the hospital policy not to allow them entry to look after their patients left them to be exposed to downpour or the scorching heat while waiting outside the CLMMRH premises.
Mayor Miravalles, right, and Mayor Jaojoco, inspect the unit (photo below) rented by the League that will serve as a half-way house for hospital watchers coming from different LGUs of the province as they are prohibited from entering the CLMMRH premises as part of the health facility’s measure to stop the spread of COVID-19.
