By R. G. Antonet Go/PNA
ZAMBOANGA CITY — The management of the Zamboanga Puericulture Center (ZPC) No. 144 said it is eyeing to establish lying-in clinics with an Out-Patient Department (OPD) to expand its services to poor residents in this city.
Dr. Rodelin Agbulos, ZPC president, said on Monday they will first establish a lying-in clinic with an OPD in Barangay Calarian to cater to poor residents in this city’s west coast.
Agbulos said they intend to have a joint venture with the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, Inc. (PTSI), which has a property in Barangay Calarian. He noted that the ZPC and the PTSI are both non-government agencies.
Agbulos said they can integrate the tuberculosis program with the mother and child care, which is the thrust of the Puericulture Center.
He said they will also establish a lying-in clinic with an OPD in one of the barangays in the east coast once the clinic on the west coast is in place to accommodate the increasing number of patients.
ZPC, which has four physicians, is catering to some 250 patients daily. The ZPC is the only puericulture center here in the region.
