:: HNU launches first oxygen generator :: (880 times read)
BOHOL just tallied another first – the installation of the country’s first-ever oxygen generator.
The Holy Name University (HNU) in Tagbilaran City marked another milestone with a medical breakthrough in Bohol that helps improve competitiveness and medical tourism.
Gov. Erico Aumentado lauded HNU for launching another missionary endeavor on top of making a name in academic excellence.
HNU administrators believe that the new facility “will help prepare their medical center at the Janssen Heights campus in Dampas District for a better patient experience, increased competitiveness and advanced medical tourism capabilities”.
The facility package includes oxygen generators, centralized medical oxygen pipeline system, centralized medical suction pipeline system, and a machine that shreds sharp and infectious waste materials from hospitals like used syringes.
Shredded syringes, it was learned, can be recycled into materials for making hollow blocks, said Edward Dampor Sr. of Brilliant Metal Craft and Machine Design, manufacturer of the the state-of-the-art oxygen generators and medical pipeline, and James and Jean Newell of OxyAir Gases.
Aumentado was the guest of honor during the inauguration of the HNU medical center medical pipeline and the commissioning of its oxygen generator.
“This occasion is very auspicious to the medical tourism program of the provincial government of Bohol . It comes at the time when our poor people and those in the middle-class are suffering from the high cost of hospitalization. The entry of HNU to this field provides the stop-gap,” he said.
The governor cited the HNU medical center as a new partner in the provincial government’s effort to ensure that poor and middle-class Boholanos will have access to medical services.
In fact, he said, the province has enrolled about 90,000 indigent Boholanos and 52,000 barangay officials and workers provincewide in the universal PhilHealth coverage.
“This occasion speaks well of the vision of HNU leaders in providing us one new technology that can help our patients through necessary life-saving devices which can be very expensive in other hospitals,” Aumentado said.
Since the technology utilizes free air in the oxygen generation, it would be cheaper at the HNU medical center.
“Congratulations to the people behind the project, for the move to enhance health care to the people and for embarking on a medical center that could help the people. It helps us realize our program on medical tourism in Bohol ,” Aumentado said.
To note, as of last December 31, the influx of tourists already reached the 500,000 mark. Most of them had asked for any facility that could provide medical tourism.
“The HNU medical center is the perfect answer to this question,” he said.
