Unit Name: | AFP Health Service Command |
Dates: | 1937–3 September 1946 September 3, 1946–Present |
Country: | Philippines |
Branch: | Armed Forces of the Philippines |
Type: | Combat Support Hospital |
Role: | Military Health and Well-being |
Size: | 1000+ |
Command Structure: | Armed Forces of the Philippines |
Current Commander: | Col. Fatima Claire S. Navarro MC (GSC)[1] |
Garrison: | Camp Colonel Victoriano K. Luna, V. Luna Avenue, Pinyahan, Quezon City |
Nickname: | AFPHSC |
Notable Commanders: |
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Anniversaries: | September 3 |
Decorations: | Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation Badge |
Identification Symbol Label: | Unit Seal of the AFP Medical Center |
Identification Symbol 2 Label: | AFP Medical Corps Branch Insignia |
The Victoriano Luna General Hospital (or simply V. Luna General Hospital), also known as Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center[3] (AFP General Hospital), is one of the Armed Forces of the Philippines' Wide Support Units tasked to provide medical care to military personnel and civilian human resources of the AFP, which includes their immediate dependents. It also refers to the healthcare facility complex that is occupied by the unit along V. Luna Avenue in Pinyahan, Quezon City.
The V. Luna General Hospital was named after Col. Victoriano Luna who was then Chief of the Medical Service and Adviser to the Chief of Staff. He came up with the idea in 1935 of putting up an Army Station Hospital to address the health service needs of a growing army.[4]
By 1937, Army Engineers started the design conceptualization and construction of Luna's dream. On September 3, 1946, pursuant to Headquarters Philippine Army (HPA) GO Nr 512, the 1st Philippine Army General Hospital was named "Colonel Victoriano Luna General Hospital" in honor Luna who conceptualized the medical center.[4]
The units under the AFPHSC control are as follows:[5]