The Department of Health (DOH) has expressed fears that existing buildings of the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Medical Center in Manila are not safe anymore to withstand strong earthquakes, citing the magnitude 6.2 tremblor that hit Italy recently.

The medical center on Lope de Vega Street in Manila’s Santa Cruz district serves thousands of mostly poor patients, many of them pregnant women.

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