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There are 30 hospitals operating in the province of which 22 are privately owned and the remaining
8 are government hospitals. This does not include private medical practitioners who are maintaining
medical clinics and admitting in-patients.
Of the government hospitals, only the provincial hospital, Gabriela Silang General Hospital in Vigan
City is capable of providing tertiary level of care in terms of equipment facilities as well as specialized
services like orthopedic surgery, psychiatry, ophthalmology and the like. This hospital also have CT scan,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and dialysis center.
There are six (6) district hospitals and one medicare hospital established in strategic locations in
the province. Of the district hospitals, only the Southern Ilocos Ssur District Hospital located in Bio, Tagudin
and the Central Ilocos Sur District Hospital in Narvacan are providing secondary level of health care.
St. Martin de Porres in Candon City and Metro Vigan Cooperative Hospital in Bantay and the St.
James Hospital in Vigan City have the most modern equipment and facilities among the private hospitals
operating in the province because they offer CT Scan among the services. St. James Hospital and the Metro
Vigan Cooperative Hospital have dialysis centers
Authorized
Capacity
A. Government Hospitals
Based on the above data, the hospital bed-population ratio in the province in 2010 is 1:772 which is lower
than the standard of 1:500.