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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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ILOILO City – The city government, together with Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) and Ilonggo cardiologists, are joining hands to put up a heart center in the metropolis.
The initiative will provide accessible health facilities to more Ilonggos, said Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog.
The proposal is in line with the goal of the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) to install government-run heart centers and facilities across regions. It invited the city government and WVMC as partners.
The Philippine Heart Center, based in Quezon City, was established through Presidential Decree No. 673 issued by then President Ferdinand Marcos in 1975. Its original name was the Philippine Heart Center for Asia. It was inaugurated on February 14, 1975.
“The heart center project is spearheaded by PHC to install facilities per region and they want Iloilo City to be one of the first cities to benefit from the program,” said Mabilog.
The first Director of the PHC was Avenilo Aventura (1974-1986), a cardiovascular surgeon who performed many pioneering operations in the Philippines including the first successful renal transplantation in 1970, the first coronary artery bypass grafting in 1972, and developed and implanted the first ASEAN bioprosthesis, the PHCA porcine valve. (Iloilo City PIO/PN)
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