How COVID-19 frontliners are improvising with personal protection equipment amid lack of supplies

Why is there a shortage in PPEs?

Dr. Geraldine T. Zamora, a consultant in three tertiary hospitals in Manila likewise laments the severe lack of PPEs. “We need N95 masks of all sizes, as well as gloves and fluid resistant gowns,” she shares. In the hospitals she’s affiliated with, they are overhauling their system, so that “layers of teams have been formed to answer the present need for frontliners and to prepare for the worst, since this may possibly go on for a while.

In the provincial hospital setting, pulmonary diseases specialist Dr. Abundio Balgos says they had followed the basic requirements for Department of Health and PhilHealth accreditation, which is one isolation unit and at least 10 sets of PPEs. But this number wasn’t obviously projecting the pandemic that we are currently experiencing.

• Shoe cover - ordinary plastic bag, big and long enough to serve as disposable boots to be worn over the boots “Training and practice are crucial here,” he points out. “Kung di sila marunong, baka lalo lang makasama.” He also says that the steps on doffing should be strictly followed “because you assume that there are infectious elements already in the PPE,” he says.

Dr. Balgos stresses that they would, of course, prefer the standard PPEs, but they cannot get a hold of these at the moment, and this is why they decided to improvise. “Those who came from Manila and went home to the provinces have a social responsibility to inform the health authorities in their area so they can be monitored. Sana lahat ng Pilipino ngayon mag-cooperate kasi this is a national problem. Hindi ito problema ng doctor lang, ng provincial or municipal health officer, problema ito ng lahat,” he emphasizes.

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