The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board has approved the establishment of the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) Cancer Center, the first Public and Private Partnership (PPP) under the Marcos Administration.
In a press release, the Presidential Communication Office (PCO) announced that the NEDA, chaired by President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., favored the construction of the project during their board meeting.
"The project aims to establish UP-PGH’s dedicated cancer hospital that will modernize its health infrastructure and offer comprehensive, high-quality, and affordable oncology services towards enhancing the country’s health service quality and capacity for cancer care," it said.
According to the PCO, the cancer center is 3,000 square meters and this will be located inside the UP-PGH main campus in Manila.
The building will have 20 floors with a 300-bed capacity — 150 are charity beds while 150 are private beds.
The PCO said the hospital would have an area for linear accelerators (LINAC) bunkers and a full range of medical treatments including radio oncology (radiotherapy), imaging, and medical oncology.
The said cancer center is also expected to support the teaching and research activities of UP-PGH.
The government will allocate Php 6 billion for the new UP-PGH Cancer Center's construction, the PCO said.
It said that the private partner of UP-PGH would be the one to "design, engineer, construct, and commission the entire new hospital building, procure, maintain, and provide for the periodic replacement of medical and non-medical equipment."
Likewise, it would also be tasked to "maintain all non-clinical services for the entire hospital building, operate relevant commercial activities, provide clinical services to private-paying patients in the private area, and assume all associated costs of clinical manpower, drugs, and consumables."
