Dumaguete City COVID-19 patient in critical condition, 43 medical personnel isolated

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DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental- Forty-three (43) nurses and medical personnel from two private hospitals here where the public official who tested positive for the Coronavirus Disease

Dr. Brenda Diputado of the ACE Dumaguete Doctors Hospital in a press briefing on Thursday morning, March 22, 2020, said there are 20 nurses placed under isolation at the hospital where the patient was first admitted.

“They are not technically PUM’s because these nurses are not caring for the patient. It just so happen that they are ICU nurses. But we want to take very extreme measures to contain the virus that’s why we are advising them to stay in the hospital,” Estrellado said.

 

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