Aurora Hill Health Center is Cordillera’s first super health center
The Aurora Hill Health Center dubbed by the Dept. of Health (DOH) as Cordillera Region’s first “super health center” was inaugurated last Jan. 25, 2023.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong who pursued the project with the Dept. of Health (DOH) said the facility will serve as a benchmark for all other district health centers in the city.
Magalong led the inaugural along with Mrs. Soledad Go representing Rep. Mark Go, Coun. Betty Lourdes Tabanda; Dept. of Health-Center for Health Development Cordillera Regional Regulations, Licensing and Enforcement Division Chief Virginia Narciso, City Health Officer Rowena Galpo and Aurora Hill Health Center Medical Officer IV Marie Therese Sumbillo along with Punong Barangay May Gonzales and Rafael Valencia of 911-on-call.
The DOH-CAR said the super health center with 1,200 square meter floor area and stands on a 700 square meter land was built in 2021 through an P18 million funding from the city government and P10 million from the DOH-Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP).
“Built during the early 1950s as a one-story building, Aurora Hill Health Center was one of the first health centers established in Baguio City. Through the years, the structure has become a base for services that are geared towards maternal and childcare nutrition and sanitation,” the DOH-CAR recalled.
“After its reconstruction in 2021, Aurora Hill Health Center is now the biggest and most modern health center in the city that will provide primary health care services, birthing clinic, a function hall that may be converted into an isolation area if needed, pharmacy, clinical laboratory, X-ray services and ambulatory services.”
It serves 13 barangays with a catchment population of 21,000.
Galpo during the program said the facility “is not just a building but a symbol of Universal Health Care in action.”
The DOH said that under the Universal Health Care (UHC) law, “health centers, as primary care providers, are mandated to deliver health services” in line with the program’s “planned paradigm shift to primary care.” – Aileen P. Refuerzo
