BulSU opens College of Medicine this August first semester 

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The San Rafael Campus of Bulacan State University in San Rafael town where claases in the College of Medicine will start on Aug. 28. Photo by Carmela Reyes-Estrope

CITY OF MALOLOS—The Bulacan State University (BulSU) opens this school year the first ever state-run College of Medicine (COM) in the whole of Central Luzon. 

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) aproved this year the opening of the COM. The medicine proper school of BulSU was initially targeted to open last year. 

BulSU President Teody San Andres said they are expecting an initial more than a hundred enrollees for the medicine proper in San Rafael Campus before the classes begin on Aug. 28. 

The pre-enrollment period has already started on July 1 and would last until August 9 where interested applicants are being entertained. Applicants must be a graduate of a 4 year course, preferrably in courses related to health and science. 

The entrance examination is slated on August 12-16. 

Through an initial budget of P100 million which is included in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) of 2024, the infrastructure and other facilities of the COM were already constructed.

The said budget was intended for the buildings and other infrastructures, says Rosalie Abesamis, region 3 director of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). 

However, according to San Andres, even before the inclusion and release of the said budget in the 2024 GAA, BulSU has already set-up measures and major preparations for the opening of the COM this year. 

San Andres told NEWS CORE that while the COM opens this semester, similar at par developments of other BulSU courses in all the BulSU campuses—Malolos Main, Meneses, Hagonoy, Sarmiento, Bustos have already started and will continue further. 

Abesamis who was with DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman who spoke as the guest of honor and speaker in the BulSU Hagonoy Campus commencement exercises held at the Main Campus here in Malolos on Friday told mediamen in an interview that a P15 million budget is allotted for the BulSU-COM Dormitory and another P85 million for the completion of the facilities. “Our priority now in BulSU College of Medicine is to complete what have been started,” Abesamis said.  

Pangandaman said there will be sufficient budget for the COM of BulSU because the medical courses clases are under RA 11509 or the Doctor Para sa Bayan Law that was authored by Senator Joel Villanueva. The law was signed into law by President Duterte last year. Under the law, the national government shoulders the operation of school of medicines. 

Based on the law, each regions in the coutry must have at least two schools of medicines to produce enough doctors to serve the country particularly during health emergency situations. Villanueva said the COVID-19 pandemic made Filipinos realized the country severely lacks doctors. 

Also, under the law, the new doctors should first return the scholarship and expenditures of the government by serving in their respective communities. They need to serve the comminity or the government for the years they have besn scholars of the government. 

Third District Rep. Lorna Silverio, one of the main proponents of the BulSU San Rafael Campus has already proposed in Congress the establishment of a hospital within the campus as actual training and internship center of the medicine students. 

Pangandaman said the stories of the students and graduates of Hagonoy Campus who go to their classes without any penny inspires her to give more her best in her job. “I want to listen to them, they make me do and give more for our country through my work,” she said before the media. 

Pangandaman was also a guest of honor and speaker in a morning graduation in Tarlac State University. 

The budget secretary welcomes the free minds of the students in joining people’s groups inside the university while they are scholars of the government as part of the democratic freedom being enjoyed by everyone in our country. However, at the end of the day, being scholars of the government, she said, they are expected that what they will say will be helpful in our government and society.  “At the end of the day, we expect them to say only what would help us better our country and our society and that they should also credit the good works,” she told NEWS CORE

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