Lung Center of the Philippines

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Lung Center of the Philippines
Department of Health
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Lung Center of the Philippines
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Geography
Location Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Coordinates 14°38′51″N121°02′45″E / 14.64749°N 121.04585°E / 14.64749; 121.04585
Organization
Type Tertiary
Services
Emergency department 24-hour emergency department
Beds210
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History
Opened1981
Closed1998 (reopened in 1999)
Links
Website lcp.gov.ph
Lists Hospitals in the Philippines

The Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) (Filipino : Ospital ng Pilipinas sa may sakit sa Baga) is a government tertiary hospital specializing in the prevention and cure of lung and other chest diseases, located on Central, Quezon City, Philippines. The center receives budgetary support for its operations from the national government. [1] It was constructed on public land donated by the National Housing Authority. [2]

Contents

The Lung Center is a 210-bed hospital. [2]

History

The LCP was established on January 16, 1981, by President Ferdinand Marcos under Presidential Decree No. 1823 as a non-profit non-stock corporation. [3] The building is identified with what is referred to as the Marcoses' "edifice complex," [4] [5] defined by architect Gerard Lico as "an obsession and compulsion to build edifices as a hallmark of greatness." [6]

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The Lung Center was placed under the administration of the Ministry of Health (now Department of Health) by President Corazon Aquino on July 29, 1986, under Executive Order No. 34 . [7] [8] The purpose of its creation was to provide healthcare that specifically targets lung and pulmonary disease.

A fire on May 16, 1998, destroyed much of the LCP's building and equipment. The fire, which started on 2:20 a.m., claimed 11 lives with nine more missing. [9] Calixto Zaldivar, the director of the Lung Center, was indicted on October 19, 1999, for criminal negligence. He was accused of ignoring advice from fire inspectors to install safety equipment at the Lung Center. [10]

The Lung Center was reopened on March 1, 1999, and a new LCP building partly funded by its fire insurance began construction. [11]

The Lung Center runs one of three monitoring stations run under an air quality monitoring project in Metro Manila. [12]

In January 2019, the Duterte administration established the Philippines' 19th Malasakit Center at the Lung Center. [13] On January 23, 2024, President Bongbong Marcos launched the country’s first Lung Transplant Program at the Center in collaboration with the National Kidney and Transplant Institute. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Philippine National Health Accounts 2005-2011" (PDF). Philippine National Health Accounts. National Statistical Coordination Board. October 2013. ISSN   1655-8936.
  2. 1 2 "History". lcp.gov.ph. December 4, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ "P.D. No. 1823". The LawPhil Project. January 16, 1981. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Masagana 99, Nutribun, and Imelda's 'edifice complex' of hospitals". GMA News. September 20, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  5. ↑ Afinidad-Bernardo, Deni Rose M. "Edifice complex | 31 years of amnesia". The Philippine Star. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  6. ↑ Villa, Kathleen de (September 16, 2017). "Imelda Marcos and her 'edifice complex'". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  7. ↑ "E.O. No. 34". The LawPhil Project. July 29, 1986. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  8. ↑ An anarchy of families : state and family in the Philippines. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. 2009. p. 418. ISBN   978-0-299-22984-9. OCLC   223848773.
  9. ↑ "Patients die in hospital fire". BBC News. May 16, 1998. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ Sandiganbayan|Criminal Case 25691|(May 19, 2008)
  11. ↑ "Executive Summary of the 1999 Annual Report on the Lung Center of the Philippines". Commission on Audit. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
  12. ↑ Chanco, Boo (March 25, 2019). "Air quality". The Philippine Star. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  13. ↑ "19th Malasakit Center rises at Lung Center". The Philippine Star . January 9, 2019. Archived from the original on June 4, 2024. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
  14. ↑ Mangaluz, Jean (January 23, 2024). "Marcos leads launching of Lung Transplant Program of LCP-NKTI". Philippine Daily Inquirer .
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