The Eastern Visayas Medical Center (EVMC) is a tertiary level teaching and training government hospital in the Philippines.
On June 18, 1966, the then Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital was established as a general hospital in Tacloban with service capacity of one hundred beds.Philippine Republic Act 4764 Section 1 On July 22, 1972, the Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital became the surviving entity when the Leyte Provincial Hospital and the Tacloban City Hospital were merged with it.Philippine Republic Act 6527 Section 3 During this time, its capacity was increased to two hundred fifty beds.Philippine Republic Act 6527 Section 2 It was renamed as Tacloban City Medical Center on November 12, 1986 Memorandum Order No. 48, s. 1986 issued by the Office of the President of the Philippines and again renamed as Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC) on March 24, 1992.Philippine Republic Act 7289 Section 1 In 2009, it was authorized by the national law to expand into a five hundred bed hospital.Philippine Republic Act 9793 Section 4 In 2021, the word "regional" was dropped from its namePhilippine Republic Act 11567 Section 1 and its service capacity was further increased to 1500 beds.Philippine Republic Act 11567 Section 2
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