All Dagupan hospitals full to the brim — Dr. Rivera
IF you can avoid it, don’t get sick!
This was the message that Dr. Ophelia Rivera, COVID-19 focal person in Dagupan City, conveyed to the Sangguniang Panlungsod during the inquiry in aid of legislation on the current status of COVID-19 amid its reported renewed surge blamed to the Delta variant.
She said getting admitted to hospital in Dagupan City presently, public and private, is quite difficult not only because they are all so full but also because their personnel are no longer enough as many are getting sick with COVID-19 as well.
She cited the Region1 Medical Center which has a hotline in their Operations Center, which requires the patient to call before seeking admission because the hospital has over 200 patients waitlisted for admission and 47 waitlisted for slot at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
She said an average of 30-60 patients are waitlisted in private hospitals.
According to Rivera, the private hospitals—like the R1MC—are consciously limiting their admissions because many of their personnel are also infected by the virus.
“Our immediate concern are those patients that need to be referred to hospitals but that is now quite difficult because there are no more beds available in both public and private hospitals,” Rivera told the SP.
She said the intermediary facility built by the city government at the East Central Elementary School is a big help to COVID-19 patients, especially those having breathing difficulty.
As intermediary facility with 33 beds, it is equipped for treatment of mild cases, particularly patients with breathing difficulty due to infection, before patients are eventually transferred to a hospital if necessary.
Another newly-built isolation facility at the Bonuan Boquig National High School is provided with 120 beds but can be expanded up to 144 beds.
The other isolation facilities are at the former Arizona Inn and at the premises of the City Engineer’s Office but the latter is set to be collapsed to reassign its nurses and manpower to the Bonuan Boquig facility. (Leonardo Micua)
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