PH’s DOH, national task force team up to aid hospital decongestion amidst COVID-19 PH’s DOH, national task force team up to aid hospital decongestion amidst COVID-19
By Teddy Cambosa
The Department of Health (DOH), together with the rest of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), and the National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) in the Philippines, shall continue its efforts to further address the high hospital occupancy rates in Metro Manila.
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Over the next 2 weeks, the DOH and NTF will continue to monitor and work with the Local Government Units (LGUs) to reach specific targets in order to address the two main pressing issues: increasing cases and hospital occupancies.
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In a statement on Tuesday, April 13, the DOH and NTF said over the next two weeks it will continue to monitor and work with the local government units (LGUs) to reach specific targets to address the increasing cases and hospital occupancies.
The DOH and NTF have also committed to reduce the duration of infectiousness of cases through increased contact tracing efficiency and strengthened active case finding through testing at the community level, which they said can help “reduce new infections.”
Contact Tracing Czar Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, the Department of the Interior and Local Government, and the Department of Information and Communications Technology will also further support contact tracing efforts through supplementation of around 27,672 contact tracers in the NCR+ bubble, and by putting in place an automatic contact tracing system using text messaging (SMS).
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This was assured by the Department of Health (DOH) and the National Task Force against COVID-19 (NTF).
“The current pace of the COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers is expected to rise exponentially once bulk of the government-procured doses, as well as those from the COVAX Facility arrive by mid-second quarter of this year,” the DOH and NTF said in a joint statement on Saturday, March 13.
The agencies said that the current pace of the vaccination program for healthcare workers “will not be the pace the vaccination will go once full-scale implementation of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Program has been initiated.”
A vaccination simulation exercise at the A. Mabini Elementary School vaccination site in Davao City. The COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in the city will start on March 5 with the arrival of the vaccines.
DAVAO CITY, March 3 (PIA)- The vaccination roll out for Davao City will commence on March 5, according to Dr. Ashley Lopez, acting City Health Officer and focal person for COVID-19 concerns.
He said Vaccine Czar Secretary Carlito Galvez and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III will be coming to the city to grace the occasion.
Lopez said the city will still follow the priority listing as recommended by the Department of Health grouped from A, B to C.