MANDAUE CITY, Cebu- A modern, affordable hospital is how lawyer Augusto Go describes what will soon be known as the University of Cebu Medical Center (UCMC) during its groundbreaking ceremony and blessing rite recently.

Go, who also owns at least four University of Cebu campuses, bared that it has been his dream to construct a hospital that will cater to the middle class.

Said hospital, to be called the UCMC, is expected to open and start offering services in mid-2014, while its full operation is expected to start by early 2015, said Wally Liu, chief executive officer of Primary Structures Corp. which will construct the hospital in this city’s Barangay Subangdaku.

Meanwhile, Architect Maxwell Espina revealed that the 12-floor tertiary hospital will feature a design that will make it very comfortable to patients.

Go said the new hospital is expected to have the ambiance of a hotel as he envisions it to be a hospital-friendly facility especially for children.

Espina added that UCMC will have a spacious parking lot that can accommodate from 200 to 400 cars. It will use eco-friendly bulbs and air-conditioning units while landscaping is planned on the sixth floor of the building.

“We are always searching for ways to improve our services. With UCMC, medical education and medical care will be enhanced to serve people,” said UC Chancellor Candice Gotianuy who also shared that the construction of the hospital is expected to increase the number of UC nursing students.

Gotianuy stressed that the direction of UCMC is to provide quality medical care at an affordable cost even as it intends to acquire the best possible equipment for the various services it will offer.

source:mjn-e-news