Featured image above shows three of the country’s youthful local chief executives (LCEs), all members of Mayors for Good Governance (M4GG) during the group’s national meeting in Quezon City last year. From the right, Mayor Vico Sotto, Pasig City; Mayor Sitti Djahlia Hataman, Isabela City, Basilan; and Mayor Joy Belmonte, Quezon City. (Photo: SDN)
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PASIG CITY, January 25, 2026 (SDN) — One of Metro Manila’s 17 local government units (LGUs), Pasig, as the Year of the Fire Horse got off to a hot start, continues constructing infrastructures to get the government closer to its over 850,000 population (2024 Census).
City Mayor Vico Sotto, on his third and last three-year term and still very much adored by his constituents, has been intensifying the implementation of his programs, projects, and services for the local citizens.
Remember, he won a resounding third term in May 2025 against neophyte politician Cezarah Rowena Discaya, businesswoman, one of a number of contractors implicated in the billions of flood control projects found to be either unfinished, substandard, or ghost.
Since then, the youthful mayor has been on a busy body for his constituents, which provides him a legacy when he finally bows out as the chief local executive of Pasig.
His biggest project, though, is the construction of the over Php9.26-billion multi-use New Pasig City Hall Campus (NPCHC), modern, disaster-resilient on Caruncho Avenue, comprised of a number of buildings designed to last a long time, a major redevelopment undertaking that replaces the shaky and old said to be “structurally unsafe existing City Hall” in the heart of the city.
The cost of the NPCHC being built in Barangay San Nicolas covers demolition, site development, IT infrastructure, and construction.
But while the grand project, the biggest in the city under the leadership of Sotto, small but important projects are being implemented as well.
Here’s some of the projects the mayor has announced on social media:
(𝗔) 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡:
1. Sumilang Health Center
– Beside multipurpose bldg/basketball court
3 floors; w/ project cost ~₱27.1M
– Space too small in current site at brgy hall
2. E. Santos Health Center, Palatiw
– Old/existing center is not ideal
– New structure 95% complete (minor changes e.g. partition of Operating Room to meet standards)
– Project cost ~₱13M
3. San Jose Health Center
– Conversion of old unused building; 90% complete including variation order
– Project cost ~₱8M
4. Food and Water Laboratory – recently inaugurated; see separate post.
(𝗕) 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛 𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 (worth ~₱28.4M total):
1. Manggahan Super Health Center (roofing, cabinet installation, termite and pest control, electrical)
2. Bagong Ilog HC/FP OSS (water proofing, painting, installation of AC, lighting)
3. Caniogan Health Center (fencing, canopy)
4. Clinica Pasig (PaTH/PatC) Sumilang (roofing replacement, gutter and downspout, canopy)
5. San Joaquin Super Health Center (roof replacement, new emergency shower, bathroom works with toilet and sink replacement, vinyl flooring with coving, construction of waste holding area)
6. Maybunga Floodway Health Center (fencing, waste holding area, sputum collection area, provision of minor surgical room)
7. Santolan Super Health Center (laboratory expansion with nutrition and medicine storage and dispensing, new rooms for microbiology/extraction, additional sink, emergency shower, and handwashing area, additional window for releasing)
8. Pinagbuhatan Health Center, Urbano Velasco (roof repair)
(𝗖) 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 (with issued DOH Permit to Construct):
1. Santa Cruz Health Center (conversion of room into minor surgical room, consultation room, medicine dispensing counter, record storage, breastfeeding room, TB room, waiting area)
2. Nagpayong Super Health Center – laboratory expansion
3. Manggahan Super Health Center – laboratory expansion
(𝗗) 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗡𝗘𝗪:
1. New District 1 COMMUNITY ER
– Goal: declog hospital emergency rooms; and to improve network of health services
– DOH issued Permit to Construct (PTC) on January 16, 2026
– For budgeting and start of construction later this 2026.
2. New Ugong Health Center
– Estimated cost ~₱49M; for public bidding and start of construction this year.
3. New Palatiw Health Center
– Conversion of old Youth Development Center Palatiw
– Finalizing program of work and then re-application for DOH PTC.
4. New San Joaquin Super Health Center
– Lack of space in existing center
– The LGU has acquired a vacant lot just last December
– We are now designing a NEW up-to-standard super health center.
– Possible 2026 or 2027 project
5. Nagpayong Infirmary (“mini-hospital”)
– In the city acquired lot
– Finalizing design/program of works
– Resolving several challenges including right-of-way
– Target start of construction 2026.
(𝗘) 𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗘:
Dermatology Specialty Clinic for skin disease in Caniogan
– Partnership with RMC
– Fixing Manila Water connection.
Even if you are not a fan of the mayor, you have to concede he is doing a hell of a job and doing right by his constituents.
Something you can’t say with every local government official. — EDD K. USMAN (/)
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*this is not a complete list.
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Source: Social Media post on Facebook of Mayor Vico Sotto.