The Cebu City Medical Center used to be hosted in a four-storey building and had a capacity of 300 beds which was declared structurally unfit and demolished after sustaining heavy damage due to an
earthquake on October 15, 2013. Under the administration of then Mayor
Michael Rama, the building was demolished in February 2014. In June 2015, the construction of a new hospital building was approved by the Cebu City government. C.E. Padilla Construction was the contractor awarded to complete the first and second phase of the hospital building project. Operations temporarily moved to the
Bureau of Fire Protection's (BFP) Region 7 compound with the parking lot, main building, and gymnasium refurbished as patient wards and other hospital facilities. The bed capacity of the hospital was reduced to 108 beds. The hospital was still unfinished by the end of Osmeña's term in 2019. His successor,
Edgardo Labella pledged to complete the hospital under his term. Its outpatient department was expected to start accepting patients on December 29, 2020 but was delayed since its partial occupancy permit was still being processed through the Office of the Building Official (OBO) according to Floro Casas Jr., the city administrator. ==References==