NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 9 April) – Ironically, as the vaccine rollout spreads, spreads, too, in scary pace the virus, surging the infection cases sky high, to as much as 15,310 in a single day. Heart-breaking narratives circulate anent patients suspected with COVID-19 who had traveled distances for hours, moving from one hospital to another, only, at the end, refused of admission. Some died on the road or at the doorsteps of healthcare facilities without receiving medical attention. Their stories are disturbing and gnaw at our very core.
The plight, likewise, of overworked and overstressed health workers, some of which had succumbed to the disease scour our soul.
Even non-COVID-19 patients are also refused admission. Emergency rooms are filled to the rafter. For no one knows whether an arrival has the dreaded disease or not until swab-tested. This causes the long queue for admission in already overwhelmed healthcare facilities.
The stressful and futile search for available hospitals could be avoided.
DOH may establish, if this is not done yet, a central communication center to advise the public at any given time on hospitals that can still accommodate COVID-19 patients. A 911-like hotline may also be made available for the purpose.
In current situation when most hospitals in the Metro and nearby are already overloaded, it’s logical to advice patients to remain at home.||| |||buy flomax online with |||
Online practical and doable medical advice may be offered for their treatment or at least to mitigate their suffering.
It is incumbent for DOH to develop a kind of manual for patients with COVID-19 symptoms who would opt or are forced to stay at home under the present circumstances. It is helpful to know, preferably before an incident occurs, how to care such patients, what relief medicines to give appropriate their symptoms, and what easy-to-use health instruments or tools may be availed of.
Meanwhile, Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar announced recently the completion of modular isolation and quarantine health care facilities with 131,517 beds nationwide. With the phenomenal surge of infection currently in NCR, the isolation czar announced the construction of modular hospitals and intensive care units and additional isolation and quarantine facilities in the Metro in due time. One modular hospital could be completed in 45 days, he said. The entire infra program costs, accordingly, around P5 billion, funded under the Bayanihan Act.||| |||buy zithromax online with |||