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Pineda has been manning the triage section of his hospital’s COVID-19 emergency unit.
With the more than 40 beds occupied by patients in critical condition, and the hallway lined with more patients in wheelchairs, Pineda had to decide who would get treatment and who would not.
He turned away more than half the people who came begging him to take in an ailing loved one, many of them struggling to breathe.
Some even knelt in front of him, begging to at least be allowed to wait in the hallway.
“Many of them said we were already the eighth or ninth hospital they tried, and if it were up to me, I really would have taken them in,” he said. “But there really was no room left.”
Published April 18, 2021, 3:34 PM
Emergency rooms in some areas in the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby provinces have remained full as the number of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have continued to be high, an officer of Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) said Sunday, April 18.
(AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
In an interview over DZMM, Dr. Maricar Limpin, vice president of PCP, said some emergency rooms were turned into COVID-19 wards and intensive care units as wards dedicated for COVID-19 patients remained full.
“Nung in-announce yung MECQ [modified enhanced community quarantine], isa sa mga worry namin na maaaring tumaas ulit ang dami ng mga nagkakaroon ng COVID-19 kasi medyo nabawasan yung restrictions. Hindi pa nga kami nakakahinga nang konti, maaaring tataas na naman (When the MECQ was announced, one of our worries was that the number of people getting infected could increase again because the restrictions were relaxed. We haven’t even been able to breath
(FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Villafuerte on Friday, April 16, specifically said that the DOH failed to fully equip the frontliners with personal protective equipment (PPEs) that are essential in their daily battle to save COVID-19 patients and their lives as well.
The failure of DOH executives to use the P3 billion allotted in Republic Act (RA) No. 11494, or the “Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2), for the acquisition of PPEs “smacks of criminal neglect,” he added.
Villafuerte said the health officials’ continuing inaction “has put our medical frontliners at serious risk of infection, great harm and even death on a daily basis in the absence or shortage of such indispensable protection against the highly infectious pathogen.”
Published April 12, 2021, 5:51 PM
The government is not inclined to emulate the previous administration’s super typhoon Yolanda-like disaster response in addressing the coronavirus pandemic.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the disaster response implemented by the Liberal Party during the onslaught of Yolanda in 2013 was “disastrous,” adding there was no need to employ such failed scheme during the pandemic.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO)
“Huwag na po nating ibalik iyong naging kalansay ng Liberal Party na Yolanda (Let’s not bring back the skeletons of the Liberal Party during the Yolanda onslaught),” Roque said during a televised press briefing Monday, April 12.