The LGU-run Cainta Municipal Hospital is now providing 24-hour computed tomography (CT) scan services free of charge to all Cainteños, especially indigent patients, Mayor Keith Nieto announced on Wednesday.
"You know, sometimes the patient is pitiful when brought to the hospital, especially those who suffered a stroke or heart attack, and then the doctor will say a CT scan is needed," Nieto said.
"Oftentimes, the machine only operates from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. What if the stroke or heart attack happens at dawn?" the returning mayor added.
According to Nieto, patients previously needed to be taken to select laboratories or hospitals open in the early morning for urgent CT scans.
"Starting today, I instructed our hospital to make the CT scan procedure available 24 hours. Any time the patient is brought to our hospital, the machine must be working," he said.
"We will also accept patients from other hospitals, as long as they are from Cainta, to undergo the procedure here. They won’t have to pay anything in these kinds of emergency cases," the local chief executive added.