Photo Courtesy: Lew Beriña

The Bicol Medical Center - Patient Safety Office is behind these 300 Thanksgiving Health Kits. Each kit contains alcohol, a customized face mask, a face shield, Vitamin C tablets, and a thank you-card, given to the hospital’s healthcare workers and front liners.

NAGA CITY – After finishing her medical degree in Manila, Dr. Ma. Elizabeth E. Loria-Torres served as a medical officer in the remote town of Siruma in Camarines Sur. In one of the medical missions, she met an official of the Bicol Medical Center, who invited her to pursue her residency in the tertiary referral medical center. Since she is not from Bicol, she shrugged the idea at first. And she went on her plan to take her residency back in Manila. But after her first year of residency, she had a change of heart and reconsidered the invitation. 

The BMC's residency training program, facilitated by the Professional Education, Training and Research Unit hailed Dr. Ma. Elizabeth Loria-Torres as the Most Outstanding Graduating Resident of 2021.

(Photo by Lew Beriña) Due to the pandemic, ISO conducted the re-certification audit online last October 2020.

Amid the pandemic, the Bicol Medical Center (BMC) achieved a key milestone. After it successfully passed the re-certification audit last October 2020, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released a re-certification ISO: 9001:2015 to BMC for its effective quality management system.