DOH: Decongest hospitals first before lifting ECQ

A signage showing full capacity for COVID-19 cases is displayed outside the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Pasay city on Monday, April 05, 2021

In a virtual briefing, Vergeire said hospital utilization must be at least 60 percent before considering they are on a “safe level.” Current hospital occupation is at 78 to 80 percent.“We need to bring that down so we can say that our healthcare system can manage,” Vergeire said. The health undersecretary pressed the need to strengthen the enforcement of the Prevent, Detect, Isolate, Treat, and Reintegrate strategy to contain the increase of new cases.

“We have set targets per week wherein we need to see all contacts traced within 24 hours and they need to get isolated within 24 hours. Also looking at the percentage of those mild and asymptomatic being treated in quarantine facilities and only those moderate and severe cases in the hospitals,” Vergeire said.

“What would be most important really would be for us to look at the healthcare utilization. The health system should be able to manage and should be able to breathe, and should have this decongestion before we can say that we can easily lift the restrictions for this community quarantine,” she added.“It should not jump from ECQ to GCQ [General Community Quarantine].

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

And who is responsible of decongest the hospitals? It seems no one?

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Each barangay should have isolation facility for mild Covid cases to prevent spreading illness. Only severe cases should be sent to hospitals.

Endless Community Quarantine lang naman alam na solusyon ng mga DDS NasaanAngBakuna DutertePalpak

PURO COVID! Pano yung ibang sakit saka yung kabuhayan ng tao? Mas mataas pa po death rates ng non covid pneumonia kaysa COVID.

Bat kaya hindi mga sarili nyo sabihan nyo kung paano nyo made-decongest yang hospitals. Sa kapalpakan nyo din naman yan nagsimula eh

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