Afp sends medical team to Bacolod

BACOLOD CITY: A team of 12 doctors, nurses and medical aides from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Central Command arrived in Bacolod City on Friday to reinforce efforts of the local government to curb the rising cases of coronavirus infections in the province.

The AFP medical team will fill in the gap left by doctors and nurses, who have been quarantined, following the request for help of the Bacolod City government from President Rodrigo Duterte.

The doctors, nurses and medical aides are stationed at the Dr. Pablo O. Torre Medical Center and Queen of Mercy Hospital in Bacolod City.

In an advisory, Dr. Marlyn Convocar, regional director of the Department of Health (DoH) in Western Visayas, said the two private hospitals have a high number of coronavirus patients and high care utilization rate.

Convocar said the private hospitals committed to increase their Covid-19 bed allocation but lacked the necessary workers to complement the expansion.

She added that the DoH regional office would also deploy 10 nurses to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.

Another batch of health workers from DoH Central Visayas, composed of 10 nurses, will also be deployed in health facilities in Bacolod and Iloilo on September 1.

Source: TheManila Times