RIZAL Rep. Fidel Nograles thanked President Marcos for enacting this week a law establishing the Northern Tagalog Regional Hospital in Montalban town, saying the facility said would provide easier access to healthcare for the people of Rizal and neighboring areas.
“We sincerely thank President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his signing of our House Bill No. 955, now known as Republic Act No. 12112, or the law that seeks to establish the Northern Tagalog Regional Hospital (NTRH) in Montalban under the Department of Health,” Nograles said in Pilipino.
“We have been dreaming for a long time to provide fast and reliable medical services and free health care to our senior citizens, PWDs (persons with disability), women, and our less fortunate countrymen who no longer have to go out and go further. With Republic Act No. 12112, we can achieve our dream, our new hope,” he said.
The lawmaker added that the NTRH would help lessen the burden of Rizaleños who would usually travel to Metro Manila to seek medical and hospital services.
“Right now, the people of Rizal still need to commute and brave hours of traffic for their medical needs. The NTRH, a well-equipped health and medical institution, would eliminate that need, and ensure that not only Montalbeños, but also residents of San Mateo and other towns of Rizal, along with parts of Quezon City, and San Jose del Monte, Bulacan are attended to immediately,” Nograles noted.
Nograles, chair of the House Committee on Labor and Employment, is the author of the said law, which he pushed since his first term in 2019.
The NTRH is a Level II 200-bed capacity hospital under the Department of Health. It is the first national hospital in Rizal, as well as the first hospital in Region IV-A with an infectious disease laboratory.
Nograles said the NTRH will offer such services as consultations for pediatrics medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery. It will also have a clinical laboratory for blood testing, a pharmacy, and first level X-ray and ultrasound services.
Services for dental care, family planning, maternity facilities, a general intensive care unit for critically ill patients, neonatal intensive care unit, high risk pregnancy unit, and provisions for respiratory therapy services, will also be provided, he said.
