Hospitals in Baguio City also full of COVID-19 patients

Hospital facilities in Baguio City are already full due to the ever-increasing number of those infected with COVID-19.

The total number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 stood at 8,055, and 1,041 of them were active cases or currently being treated.

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On Saturday alone, 225 positive cases were recorded, the highest number recorded in a single day.

As a result, the hospitals are full and they can no longer admit patients.

It is also said that it is no longer possible to increase the bed capacity in private hospitals.

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There are three private hospitals and one government hospital that accepts COVID-19 patients in Baguio.

“[Baguio] is actually doing its best to expand and even to rotate ‘yung mga manpower, ginagawa nila ang lahat para sila ang mag-a-admit sa mga patients na ito. Other solutions will be meron naman tayong isolation facilities, asymptomatic to mild ang maa-admit doon,” said Dr. Rowena Galpo, city health officer of Baguio City.

Hospitals in Baguio City also full of COVID-19 patients

Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong continues to monitor despite the mayor’s situation, who also tested positive for the disease.

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“It is with a sad note that I would like to inform everyone that as of my RT-PCR test conducted yesterday morning (April 2, 2021), to which my results came out at 4:30 p.m. of the same day, I was tested positive of the Covid-19 virus,” Magalong said in a statement last week.

“The seriousness of this pandemic is something that we should not take for granted. It is a difficult situation and I don’t want anyone of you to be in this condition as it is emotionally, psychologically and financially difficult for our loved ones to bear,” he added.

Last month, Magalong admitted that the level of contact tracing in the country has dropped.

At the House Committee on Health hearing, Magalong said the efficiency ratio of contact tracing is declining.

“For the past 4 weeks, nakita niyo na talagang nag-deteriorate nang malaki. And look at the average, from 1:7, it went down to 1:3. Ibig sabihin… sa contact tracing efficiency ratio of 1:3 to 1:5, ang nako-contact trace lang diyan are members of the household,” explained Magalong.