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Building a new hospital for Marawi: Majority Leader Francis “Tol” Tolentino asks how building an entirely new hospital would help the people of Marawi while the government continues its rehabilitation efforts for the city. “There's probably nothing wrong if another new hospital is built. So we are not just talking here of reconstructing and rehabilitating a hospital structure that was destroyed, but putting up an entirely new hospital,” Tolentino said during Tuesday’s hearing, November 5, 2024, of the Special Committee on Marawi City Rehabilitation and Victims’ Compensation. “This will in the future help address the medical needs of the people of Marawi and Lanao del Sur,” he added. At present, Marami has Amai Pakpak Medical Center (APMC), a renationalized government hospital created into law in 1995 by virtue of RA 7943, and another hospital under construction worth P293-million, which is now 90 percent complete. (Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau)