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Zamboanga del Norte Medical Center

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Hospital type
  
Number of beds
  
300

Phone
  
+63 65 212 2333

Founded
  
September 17, 2007

Zamboanga del Norte Medical Center

Location
  
Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte , Philippines

Care system
  
Public, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) accredited

Standards
  
Lists
  
Hospitals in Philippines

Address
  
Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines

The Zamboanga del Norte Medical Center is the first tertiary level I hospital and the largest provincial medical center in Zamboanga Peninsula and in Mindanao situated in Barangay Sicayab, Dipolog City. With its state of the art facilities and equipment, this hospital is able to cater the needs of the people of the province of Zamboanga del Norte and the nearby municipalities in the provinces of Zamboanga del Sur and Misamis Occidental. The hospital building and equipment cost more than P500,000,000.00 not to include the donations of medical equipment from provincial organizations in the USA like the Zamboanga del Norte Association of Illinois (ZAMNAI) and the Zamboanga del Norte Association of California (ZAMNAC) and other private sectors in the province. It has an area of 3 hectares and consist of 3 stories and has a 300(?) bed-capacity. It also houses different private clinics of known physicians in the province with specialties in dermatology, ophthalmology, dentistry, urology and gyneclogy.

Contents

Hospital departments

  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Pediatrics
  • Neurology
  • Orthopedics
  • OB-Gyne
  • Out-Patient Department
  • Medical equipment and facilities

    These are the state of the art and sophisticated medical equipment acquired by the hospital:

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (planned to be acquired)
  • Dialysis Machines
  • Hitachi 8-slice three dimensional CT Scanner- the only 3D CT scanner in Northwestern Mindanao.
  • 4DUltrasound machine
  • Hospital transportation

    The medical center currently have 4 Ford Advance Life Support System Ambulances for the transportation demand of its patients. The hospital plans to acquire 2 more modern ambulances to provide quality transportation to its clients.

    References

    Zamboanga del Norte Medical Center Wikipedia


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