They had only raised PhP164,000 and money was needed to be raised to build the hospital. 9īy the end of 1961, raising funds for the hospital building proved to be a challenge. Mayuga, the country’s director of Medical Service, on April 29, 1962.
8 On fire for the medical missionary work, plans were drafted for the building of the hospital and were approved by Pedro M. Eliseo Verde conducted patient consultations and provided medical treatment. In the middle of 1961, 7 the medical clinic was finally opened tracing the humble beginnings of the Seventh-day Adventist medical missionary work in Bacolod to a small rented clinic at the PhilamLife Building, Lacson St. Ramon Ramos, to realize the dream of establishing a hospital to extend the medical missionary work in Western Visayas. With the approval of the Far Eastern Division, 4 a 2.5 hectare lot in Taculing Bacolod (the current location of the hospital) was purchased on Febru5 from Mr. To pave the way for the medical missionary work in the area, the Executive Committee of the South Philippine Union passed an action on February 1958 to open a medical clinic in Bacolod prior to the building of the hospital with the appointment of Dr. 2 Four years later, in 1955 the South Philippine Union (Visayas and Mindanao), started to put aside funds for the hospital building coming from various people from all over Visayas and Mindanao. They found Bacolod as an ideal place to set up a hospital and recommended it to the South Philippine Union. Dick and his wife Eleanor toured the Visayas in 1951 with the intent of establishing a hospital in Southern Philippines. As a visionary doctor with the intent to extend the healing ministry of Christ to far flung areas of the Philippine Islands, Dr. Willis Gentry Dick was assigned as the Medical Secretary for the Philippine Mission headquarters in Pasay City.
1 Development that Led to the Establishment of Adventist Medical Center-Bacolodĭr.
Adventist Medical Center-Bacolod is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, specifically under the Central Philippine Union Conference. The name of the hospital was changed to Bacolod Adventist Medical Center (BAMC) in 2004. Willis Gentry Dick as its first medical director. On December 8, 1966, the hospital was inaugurated and given the official name of Bacolod Sanitarium and Hospital with Dr.
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