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Senator Imee R. Marcos
(Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO)
Marcos, chairperson of the Senate economic affairs committee, lamented that personal protective equipment (PPE) of medical frontliners are in very short supply.
‘’The Lung Center, Philippine Orthopedic Center and other hospitals are begging for more hazmats, gloves, and all other protective gear,’’ she pointed out.
‘’If we don’t take care of those who take care of us, what will become of us when we get sick?’’ Marcos asked.
She cited reports that infected healthcare workers have reached 13 percent while only two percent are infected in other countries because they are well provided with personal protective equipment (PPE) and other safeguards.
MANILA Health workers said hospitals are on the brink of collapse amid the spike in coronavirus cases in the country.
In a press conference Tuesday, April 7, Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) members said hospitals are overwhelmed with new patients every day and employees themselves are falling ill from the virus.
A number of health workers also resigned or have taken early retirement options due to fear, fatigue, frustration and severe demoralization, AHW said.
Emergency rooms, intensive care units, wards, isolation facilities of private and public hospitals are overcrowded and overflowing, the group said, while tents or modular container vans are full of patients waiting admission.
Sad but solvable war-zone hospital situation in NCR+ on World Health Day: Pangilinan
SENATOR Francis Kiko Pangilinan will call for assistance of the international community to help stop and turn around the upsurge in Covid-19 cases in the country at the worldwide Liberal Party Presidents meeting tonight. War zone na mga ospital natin. Pila-pila ang mga ambulansya ng mga maysakit sa labas ng ospital. Merong mga namamatay sa parking lot. Nagkakasakit ang mga medical front-liners natin. Kailangan na natin ng tulong (Our hospitals are practically war zones. Ambulances of sick people are lining up outside hospitals. People are dying in hospital parking lots. Our medical front-liners are getting sick. We need help), Pangilinan said.