Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center

Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) is a government-owned hospital in Cebu City, Philippines.

It aims to provide health care services that are available, affordable, accessible and acceptable to all regardless of social status.

Its operation started as early as 1911 known as Hospital del Sur and was formally established on April 11, 1913, and through Act 2725 that it granted its legal status on January 12, 1913.

[4] In 2007, the hospital became involved in what is known as the "Black Suede Scandal" where a video of an operation being performed on a man who had a body spray canister stuck to his anus was leaked.

The controversy eventually led to five of the doctors involved to be charged with unprofessional and unethical conduct.