The Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) Hospital and Diagnostic Center, simply known as the OFW Hospital, is a specialty hospital under construction in the

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Pampanga Pampanga, officially the Province of Pampanga ( pam, Lalawigan ning Pampanga; tl, Lalawigan ng Pampanga ), is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. Lying on the northern shore of Manila Bay, Pampanga is bordered by Tarlac ...

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. It is meant to cater to Filipino

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History

The Philippine government planned to set up a hospital dedicated to Filipino migrant workers, officially classified as

Overseas Filipino Workers Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million be ...

. The provincial government of

donated the land where the OFW Hospital will be built. Bloomberry Cultural Foundation Inc. of the Razon Group will fund the construction. The groundbreaking ceremony for the OFW Hospital was held on May 1, 2019. Actual construction began in February 2020 Progress on the construction was hampered by the

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. The Department of Labor and Employment and President

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, through an executive order, has fast-tracked the hospital project.

Facilities

The OFW Hospital will have a bed capacity of 100. It is intended mainly to serve

(OFWs) and their dependents.

References

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