The formal residency training program began. The following year the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges accredited Capitol Medical Center’s post-graduate internship program.
Dra Clemente was one of the year’s Outstanding Women honored by the Federacion Internacional de Abogadas, Philippines.
The Incorporators and Founders of Capitol Medical Center, Inc.
As president of the Manila Medical Society from 1966 to 1968, she was instrumental in the construction of the upper floor of the MMS Medical Library and Hall of Fame.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a procedure which involves the removal of both gallbladder as well as gallstones through many incisions in the abdomen.
Capitol Medical Center acquired the first Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging Unit in 1992. Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI or Thermography) is used for detecting muscular/skeletal, vascular and nervous system irregularities, compensatory issues, stroke and inflammation screening, monitoring injury or chronic disease, and much more.
The hospital launched and inaugurated this sophisticated laboratory facility in a bid to help advance the level of cardiovascular surgery and health in the country.
Capitol Medical Center acquired a 128 Slice Toshiba Aquilion CT scan, making it the first private hospital in Asia to acquire the world’s adaptive CT scanner. The same year marked the opening of CMC Sleep Center, which provides the latest technology in Polysomnography System, the first to be installed in…