Currently, AMOSUP has over 55,000 members and over sixty percent (60%) are based in southern Philippines (Visayas and Mindanao). Of the 60%, majority are domiciled in provinces from the islands of Cebu, Panay and Leyte, and fewer from Mindanao. Realizing the need to expand the health care services to address the needs of the members in southern Philippines, the union leadership in consultation with the general membership, decided to open and operate a hospital in Cebu.

Seamen’s Hospital - Cebu dispenses the same kind of services the hospital in Manila provides. Members and their dependents from the southern Philippines will no longer travel to Manila for their health care needs. The Seamen’s Hospital Cebu will provide the necessary health care needs to them, to the extent of its facilities.

The Seamen’s Hospital, Cebu was inaugurated in April 1997. It is an extension facility of the union’s hospital in Manila, but with a 70-bed capacity and may be upgraded to a much bigger capacity, double perhaps.

Having the same quality facilities and competent medical personnel and staff as its counterpart, it rivals the best medical institutions in the region.

Members and their dependents from Southern Philippines (over 50 % of AMOSUP’s members reside in the southern regions), no longer need to travel to Manila to avail of free medical care and hospitalization benefits since its establishment in 1997. Similar projects are also in the pipeline; the construction of an extension clinic in Iloilo City and a hospital in Davao City in Southern Philippines.

The Seamen’s Hospitals in Manila and Cebu are the avenues to execute and achieve the AMOSUP’s enduring commitment to the general membership to provide for professional and competent medical and dental services under the Family Medical and Dental Program (FMDP).