Aklan province forges MOA with Makati Med

The Aklan Provincial Government, in cooperation with the Department of Health, has forged a  partnership with the Makati Medical Center Foundation.

Aklan Gov. Florencio Miraflores said the partnership was made through a memorandum of agreement (MOA) also being supported by the Zuellig Family Foundation.

“The partnership will focus on the improvement of quality healthcare delivery through the organizational strengthening of all the eight public hospitals in the province,” Miraflores said.

The MOA signing was held in Manila last week. It was not yet clear what were the details of the MOA.

The public hospitals in the province include the Altavas District Hospital, Libacao District Hospital, Ibajay District Hospital, Malay District Hospital, Buruanga District Hospital and Boracay District Hospital, among others.

All of the district hospitals were being part of the Economic and Enterprise Development Department of the Aklan provincial government.

Dr. Adrian Sallaver of the Malay Health Office said the Malay District Hospital was also being modernized prior to the signing of MOA with the Makati Medical Center.

“Here, we did some innovation by acquiring this [digital] software that makes it easier for us to process the results of lab exams down to the sanitation units. This is to better serve the increasing number of clients that we have,” he said.

Aside from the Malay District Hospital, other hospitals in the province are undergoing training for its information technology (IT) support. The IT’s are being updated on the Hospital Billing System and eventually transition to an Integrated Hospital Operations and Management Information System. The Aklan Provincial Government spends at least P100 million annually for the health-care services of the province population.

The healthcare services are being subsidized by the increasing growth of the tourism industry brought by the island of Boracay.