DOH-7 sends more doctors, nurses to T2 of Mactan-Cebu International Airport

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Cebu City, Philippines—The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has already augmented doctors and nurses to the Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ) station at the Mactan-Cebu International

BOQ Cebu Station Assistant Chief Dr. Vernier Ceniza told CDN Digital that currently, they now have 20 nurses and four doctors stationed at the airport who are helping in making sure that the coronavirus from China won’t enter Cebu.“So they are more than enough to improve our surveillance there,” Ceniza said.

On Tuesday, January 21, 2020, Health Secretary Francisco Duque confirmed that a 5-year-old child from Wuhan, China who was in Cebu City was tested positive for non-specific pancoronavirus.The child was currently admitted on a hospital in Cebu City for manifesting fever, throat irritation, and cough prior to entering in the country.

Aside from personnel augmentation, the agency also augmented two additional thermal scanners at the airport.

 

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