THE Department of Health (DOH) Ilocos Region, Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center (ITRMC), and the office of Congressman Dante S. Garcia officially broke ground on the Bagong Urgent Care and Ambulatory Services (BUCAS) MRI Housing in Barangay Francia Sur, Tubao, La Union on October 26, 2026.
The BUCAS MRI Housing will feature modern, climate-controlled, and radiation-shielded architecture specifically designed to house delicate, cutting-edge imaging technology. The facility will dramatically cut down waiting times and out-of-pocket costs for patients of La Union’s 2nd district requiring neurological, orthopaedic, and oncology-related scans.
It will ensure that diagnostics services will be directly accessible—and affordable to BUCAS patients saving them the need to travel to distant tertiary hospitals.
With specialized diagnostic services brought straight to the grassroots, local patients can expect faster detection of neurological, muscular, and internal medical conditions.
The technical implementation and operation of the forthcoming facility will be a coordinated with ITRMC to guarantee that it will operate with the same clinical excellence and rigorous standards as a premier regional training hospital.
The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Ilocos Regional Director Helen D. Tobias, ITRMC Medical Center Chief II – Unity H. Cortez, La Union 2nd District Rep. Dante Sotelo Garcia, KM Ngayon Na! Partylist Rep. Kenneth Paolo Tereng, Tubao Mayor Jonalyn Fontanilla-Piayas, BUCAS Center Facility Manager – Christel Marie Seno and BUCAS Center Management Coordinator – Jan Paulette D. Velasco.
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