MVP, AFP chief sign pact to improve services of prime hospital for soldiers

From InterAksyon (Jun 19): MVP, AFP chief sign pact to improve services of prime hospital for soldiers



Makati Medical Center Foundation chairman Manny V. Pangilinan shakes the hand of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista after signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to enhance the delivery of services of the AFP Medical Center. JAIME SINAPIT, INTERAKSYON.COM

Industrialist Manuel V. Pangilinan and the top brass of the Armed Forces of the Philippines on Wednesday signed an agreement to improve and expand the services of the country’s prime hospital for soldiers, the AFP Medical Center in V. Luna, Quezon City.

Pangilinan, chairman of the Makati Medical Center (MMC) Foundation, signed the Memorandum of Agreement with AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista in simple rites at Camp Aguinaldo.

“The MOA paves the way for the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program to strengthen the professional competency of, and innovates the AFP Medical Center,” Bautista said.

Also present at the ceremony were MMC Foundation Vice President Judy Araneta-Roxas and MMC Foundation President, Dr. Victor L. Gisbert. Both signed as witnesses to the MOA.

“The PPP Program is a concrete response of the MMC Foundation to the challenges of delivering quality health care services to the military health sector. Its goal is to assist public military hospitals in developing a sustainable and strategic organizational and operational management plan as well as professional competency,” Bautista said.

The program allows both AFPMC and MMC to share technical resources and open their hospital facilities to conferences, workshops, training sessions, coaching and mentoring sessions. The MMC will provide these for free to all AFPMC management staff, residents and doctors.

Bautista thanked the MMC Foundation, expressing hope that “with this, the AFP will be able to deliver quality healthcare and medical services to patients confined at the AFPMC. The AFP for its part will continue to execute tangible and transparent projects to improve the current situation of the AFPMC for the benefit of its patients.”
The AFPMC will echo the training and interventions obtained from MMC to other military hospital staff from the Philippine Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines.

(Manny V. Pangilinan is the chairman of TV5, of which InterAksyon.com is the online news portal.)

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