Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso spearheaded the groundbreaking ceremony for a P110-million hospital within the Baseco Compound at Manila’s Port Area.

The three-storey hospital will be named "President Corazon C. Aquino General Hospital." It will replace the President Corazon C. Aquino Health Clinic built during the administration of the late Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim.

“Pamahalaan nalang ang sandalan ng tao. Some of us paid the ultimate price. But we have to do what we have to do. We have to do it. We have to take care of our people,” Domagoso said during the ceremony on Monday.

Once completed, the hospital building will have a 24/7 fully operational emergency room, digital x-ray equipment, and a centralized oxygen supply line.

The health care facility will also have a community-inclusive outpatient department, radiology department, laboratory and central diagnostics department, dietary department, 24/7 maternity department, and surgery and internal medicine department.

Male and female wards, isolation wards, and a pediatric ward will also be available in the new 50-bed facility.

“We always try to be ahead of the situation or possible uncertainty because we are always certain in the City of Manila,” Domagoso said.

The mayor was joined by other city officials led by Vice Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan, and Manila 3rd District Rep. John Marvin “Yul Servo” Nieto.

Domagoso, a first-term mayor, is running for president in the 2022 elections under the Akyson Demokratiko party.