ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines – Hospitals in the cities of Iloilo and Bacolod have exceeded their bed capacity for patients with the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and some have temporarily stopped patient admissions due to the ongoing case outbreak.
Non-admission would cover all instances and not just similar to COVID-19, the hospital said earlier in a statement. He said his emergency room would only respond to “extreme emergency instances until the patient is stabilized and in a position to be referred. “to some other gym. “
The Private Hospital Saint-Paul Iloilo (SPHI) also suspended the admission of instances of COVID-19 from August 19, and its Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN) from 22 to 31 August.
“Our amenities for COVID-19 instances have been completed and we can no longer accommodate new instances of COVID at this time,” he said in a statement.
SPHI stated that ob-GYN suspension in other hospitals had also exceeded itsArray’s capacity and noted that its service citizens “can no longer serve their maximum capacity as virtually everyone suffers from fatigue and exhaustion. “
Iloilo Mission Hospital also announced last week that it would no longer settle for COVID-19 cases after achieving full bed capacity. Jessie Glen Alonsabe, epidemiologist at Western Visayas, said COVID-19 and hospital isolation through the Ministry of Health (DOH) had critical occupancy rates for beds assigned to COVID-19 patients.
Isolation rooms are for mild cases, while COVID-19 rooms are for moderate to severe cases.
Alonsabe stated that WVMC’s 10 beds for moderate and severe cases had already been filled, while its isolation unit occupied 82%, or 71 of the 86 beds.
The COVID-19 rooms of the Western Visayas Sanatorium in Sta. Barbara’s the city of Iloilo reached 87. 5% occupancy (seven of 8 beds), while thirteen of 24 beds (54%) in his isolation room they were busy.
The 14 beds in the COVID-19 ward of the Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Heart Hospital in the city of Bacolod are fully occupied, while 14 of the 22 beds (64%) of the isolation service were occupied.
Bacolod Adventist Medical Center on a Sunday said, “Our emergency room isolation unit for emergency and emergency care for COVID cases is packed with patients awaiting admission. “Western Visayas’ DOH had reported 3,361 cases of COVID-19 with 53 deaths in the region as of August 22, of which 1,794 were active cases.
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