MARAWI CITY —- The national government is constructing a 50-bed hospital as part of its program to rebuild this city from the destruction wrought by the five-month siege by Islamic State-linked militants in 2017.
The building of the Marawi City General Hospital “symbolizes the rising up of the health sector in Marawi that was destroyed by the armed conflict (in 2017),” said Dr. Adriano Suba-an, Northern Mindanao’s health chief.
Suba-an has a supervisory role over state-run health facilities in Lanao del Sur.
“The health referral (and) the health facilities systems were destroyed, the health workers were displaced,” Suba-an noted.
He further observed that even privately owne…
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