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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...

Philippine government eases lockdown amid continued COVID surge Beginning April 12, the Philippine government lowered the lockdown over Metro Manila, the national capital region, and the four adjacent provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal, to the second highest level. The order rejected the advice of medical experts to extend the stricter protocol imposed on March 29 amid a COVID-19 surge. With infections at over 900,000 and rising at ten to twelve thousand a day, the highest rate since the pandemic began more than a year ago, the decision to lift restrictions is a death sentence to ...

Manila hospitals full to capacity as virus surges 2 published : 9 Apr 2021 at 10:45 2 More contagious variants of the coronavirus have been blamed for a record surge in infections in Metro Manila, MANILA: Angelo Barrera's father struggled to breathe from Covid-19 as he was driven around the Philippine capital in search of a hospital bed. After five hours he got on a waitlist, but died before he could get inside. More contagious variants of the coronavirus have been blamed for a record surge in infections in Metro Manila that has overstretc...

Vice President Leni Robredo is calling on the government to expedite the release of real-time updates on hospital bed capacity, citing the struggles of families looking for available facilities for their loved ones fighting COVID-19, and the deaths of some patients waiting in line for treatment.