Health
The Municipality of Sogod has one government-owned hospital and three private hospitals that cater the community. Recently, the three hospitals (excluding the newly constructed Pudpud Surgical Hospital) has upgraded its equipment and rehabilitated its facilities and buildings. Doctors in the municipality are taking shifts and regular visits in these hospitals to require the needs of the people. Nurses and midwives are also doing their job to assure the patient's health. However, the municipality is a recipient of the N.A.R.S project, a program that gives jobs to those nursing students who are unemployed, supplies nurses to Sogod District Hospital. Nursing students from the schools in Sogod are practicing their profession in the hospitals that were assigned.
| Major Hospitals | Location |
|---|---|
| Consuelo K. Tan Memorial Medical Center (established in 1960) | Osmeña Street, Barangay Zone II (Poblacion) |
| Corrompido Specialty Hospital (established in 1960) | Leopoldo Regis Street, Barangay Zone V (Poblacion) |
| Pudpud Surgical Hospital | Barangay San Miguel, Sogod, Southern Leyte |
| Sogod District Hospital (created on June 18, 1960, through the provisions stated by the Republic Act No. 2693) | Osmeña Street, Barangay Zone I (Poblacion) |
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