Kaban ni D_BystandeR; NAGPABILING DIBUHO NA LAMANG ANG CCMC

What is missing in your editorial is the practical answer to the most urgent question: If Mayor Mike Rama was reasonable in his decision to have the old CCMC building demolished, how come up to now the CCMC construction is still in the blueprint and has not started yet? If he did not make a rush decision to demolish the old building and he was practical enough to listen to the suggestions of some city leaders to have the building retrofitted and to make major repairs in some strategic portions of the building, the required expenditure will not be the same as the P1.5B estimate for the 10-story buIlding of the new CCMC hospital. Because Mayor Mike was thinking big that people will praise him to high heavens because of his lofty dreams to have a modern hospital but the problem is: He has no financial plans to back him up. What can you do with a dream? Does the mayor find himself in a better position now that  more than one year and his modern building has not even started an inch? City Councilor Sisinio Andales is right that the people are now put in a tight situation because the  present state of our temporary hospital can only accommodate 108 patients not like before where it can accept 300 patients and the hospital services is now downgraded to Level I instead of Level III? The services of a truly functioning hospital may not look very urgent and important to Mayor Mike because if his family needs hospital services there's no problem with him because he is rich and he can go to first class hospitals. But what about the poor city residents who only look up to the city government for their medical needs because they cannot afford to go to other hospitals?

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with an article in Cebu Daily News, entitled, "What's next for the CCMC?" It came out on March 29, 2015.