Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said President Rodrigo Duterte could use his presidential social fund (PSF) to help repair the fire-hit Philippine General Hospital (PGH).<\/p>\n
In a Palace briefing with PGH Director Gap Legaspi, Duterte spokesman Harry Roque said the president was always willing to help the PGH.<\/p>\n
“Doc Legaspi, kung anong kailangan ninyo, sabihin ninyo lang because dati na siyang nag-offer nang mas malaking halaga. So kung anong kinakailangan po ngayon para ma-repair ang mga damage ay puwede pong i-tap iyong PSF dahil iyan po ay dati na pong in-offer sa PGH,” Roque said.<\/p>\n
The spokesman said Duterte previously gave PGH P100 million in assistance from the PSF to finance medical bills of patients unable to settle their dues.<\/p>\n
According to Metro Manila’s fire protection bureau, fire broke out at PGH’s operating room, located on the third floor of PGH\u2019s central block building, past midnight of May 16.<\/p>\n
The fire reached first alarm at 12:41 a.m. It was raised to the second alarm at 12:58 a.m. Fire was declared under control at 2:46 a.m. and put out at 5:41 a.m.<\/p>\n
The fire caused about P300,000 in damage.<\/p>\n
Legaspi said faulty electrical wiring of the circuit breaker was the likely cause of the fire. John Ezekiel J. Hirro<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The spokesman said Duterte previously gave PGH P100 million in assistance from the PSF to finance medical bills of patients unable to settle their dues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGH-e1595251206766.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21978,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21977\/revisions\/21978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}