ABOUT US
Gov. Valeriano M. Gatuslao Memorial District Hospital
chief of hospital
DR. JIJI LUCIL FELICITAS
DEBUYAN - VERSOZA
MPM, CHA
chief of hospital
DR. JIJI LUCIL FELICITAS
DEBUYAN - VERSOZA
MPM, CHA
VISION
Provincial Government Hospitals are Centers of Excellence in Health Care
MISSION
Provide an Enabling Environment so that Provincial Government Hospitals Shall be Centers of Excellence in Health Care
HISTORY
The construction of the Himamaylan Emergency Hospital at Himamaylan, Negros Occidental was the pet project of the then late congressman Agustin M. Gatuslao started in the year 1958. The initial construction of the main hospital building, out-patient department, chief of hospital’s quarter and nurses’ dormitory on a 2.5-hectare lot was donated by the Gatuslao family and the construction was lasted for four (4) years.
June 8, 1962, the hospital was inaugurated and opened to the public with an annual budget of Seventy-Four Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-Eight pesos (P74,898.00) and it started its operation as a 25-bed capacity hospital and an approved plantilla of 25 positions.
July 1, 1964, the hospital was renamed Occidental Negros South General Hospital serving southern Negros whose population were mostly workers from sugar industry.
June 8, 1962, the hospital was inaugurated and opened to the public with an annual budget of Seventy-Four Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-Eight pesos (P74,898.00) and it started its operation as a 25-bed capacity hospital and an approved plantilla of 25 positions.
July 1, 1964, the hospital was renamed Occidental Negros South General Hospital serving southern Negros whose population were mostly workers from sugar industry.
Year 1969, an additional infrastructure projects were constructed – the boy’s quarter and an isolation ward which is an extension of the main hospital building for the increasing number of communicable diseases admitted.
July 1, 1972, the hospital was again renamed Gov. Valeriano M. Gatuslao Memorial Hospital in honor of the late Governor Valeriano M. Gatuslao, a native of Himamaylan and brother of late Congressman Agustin M. Gatuslao. Together with this, a corresponding law was approved increasing the bed capacity from 25 to 50 beds with an approved budget of Four Hundred Thirty-Two Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Pesos (P432,970.00).
Year 1975 another Capital Outlay for additional infrastructure projects was released for the construction of a new Out-patient department and quarters for the chief of hospital and administrative officer.The new out-patient department was constructed for the old out-patient department was destroyed by a strong typhoon that struct Negros Island in the early part of the seventies.
July 1, 1975, another legislation was passed and approved by the old Congress increasing the hospital bed capacity from 50 to 75 beds with an approved operational budget of One Million Four Hundred Ninety-Five Thousand and Six Hundred Thirty Pesos (P1,495,630.00).
In the later of 1990, former Senator Orlando Mercado and Senator Juan Ponce Enrile allocated Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P500,000.00) each from their countryside development fund to this hospital for the construction of an annex building (extension ward).
April 1, 1993 devolution process for the province of Negros Occidental took effect.
April 2009 the rehabilitation of the area of Station II started through joint efforts and funds from the Provincial Government of negros Occidental and City Government of Himamaylan and it was on October 24, 2011 the new rehabilitated building was inaugurated.
