AUFMC acting president Martin Angeles announced that his hospital’s nuclear medicine center will be blessed and inaugurated today.
“The AUFMC Nuclear Medicine Center is the second in the Philippines, the only one outside Metro Manila,” he said.
The other nuclear medicine center is at the Makati Medical Center.
Dr. Eric Cruz said AUFMC’s center is “equipped with a Wallac Wizard Automatic Gamma Counter which is the best performing gamma counter to date.” He has been designated as head of the center.
Cruz said the center will provide “therapeutic services such as iodine therapy for hyperthyroidism and thyroid malignancy, strontium for bone palliation and radiosynovectomy, while the radioimmunoassay procedures include TSH IRMA, Free T4 RIA, Total T4 RIA, Free T3 RIA, Total T3 RIA, Anti TPO RIA, Anti Thyroglobulin IRMA and Anti R-TSH RRA”.
The AUFMC Nuclear Medicine Center is the fourth specialized unit established at AUFMC in the last five months following the opening of the AUFMC-PENLAB Histopathology Reference Laboratory in September, the Lasik Surgery Clinic in October, and NOUVEAU Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Center, in December last year, Angeles noted.
AUFMC was founded 18 years ago by Angeles’s father, Dr. Emmanuel Angeles who is now chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
In July last year, Pres. Arroyo inaugurated the AUFMC’s new 11-story medical tower named after her mother, former first lady Dr. Eva Macapagal.
The medical tower boasts of a modern neo-natal intensive care unit and operating and delivery room, as well as a wellness center and provides specialized healthcare services in geriatric and pediatric medicine.
The elder Angeles, who was still then AUFMC president, said that the medical tower would enable the hospital to accept more charity patients under its Indigency Program.
The UFMC pro-poor medical assistance program has served a total of 62,000 patients over the past 18 years.
