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John Unson - Philstar.com
August 12, 2026 | 6:25pm
Officials of the Cotabato Sanitarium and General Hospital together led the symbolic opening to the public of the Women's Welfare Center on Aug. 11, 2026.
Philstar.com / John Unson
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — A major hospital in the capital town of Maguindanao del Norte province launched its Women’s Welfare Center on Tuesday, August 11, the first of its kind in the entire Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Led by their chief, Ibrahim Pangato, physicians and administrative employees of the Cotabato Sanitarium and General Hospital in Barangay Pinaring in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte together launched their newly-established Women’s Wellness Center (WWC) that shall provide special medical interventions for ailing women.
Located inside the three-hectare CotSanGen Hospital compound, the WWC, equipped with modern medical facilities, is the first ever in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Pangato, himself a practicing physician, had told reporters that CotSanGen Hospital officials and employees collaborated in setting up the WWC.
The WWC can provide women with special medical services, including prenatal care, breast condition screening, essential gestational and adolescent health interventions, according to hospital officials who, along with Pangato, led its inauguration on Tuesday morning.
The launching of the WWC was held in the presence of community leaders, reporters, representatives from different local government units, officials of the Maguindanao del Sur Provincial Police Office and a representative of the Islamic community in Cotabato City and Maguindanao del Norte, the preacher Abdulmohaymin Jacobo.
“This facility was established using funds from the CotSanGen Hospital’s coffer,” Pangato said.
BARMM's health minister, the physician-ophthalmologist Kadil Sinolinding Jr., who is also a member of the 80-seat Bangsamoro parliament, said he will urge his fellow lawmakers to help him study possible legislation that can improve the public service initiatives of the CotSanGen Hospital, only more than 10 kilometers north of the government center of the autonomous regional government in Cotabato City.
