Senator Joel Villanueva on Sunday urged the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to complement its enhanced community quarantine directives for Mega Manila with an urgent plan to save hospitals from being “completely overwhelmed” by Covid-19 cases.
“Hospitals are hanging ‘No admission for COVID patients’ signs. Sa isang pasyenteng naghihingalo, ito na po ang pinakamasakit mong mababasa. Ano kaya po ang magandang solusyon dito?” he said in a statement on Sunday.
The chair of the Senate labor committee said the “battle plan” to help hospitals in distress was absent in the IATF guidelines for the one-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila, Rizal, Bulacan, Cavite and Laguna, which were announced on Saturday.
“Mukhang ito po ang missing link doon sa IATF advisory. Sana naman maihabol ito kaagad. If hospitals were ER patients, this is the urgent cure and care they require,” Villanueva said.
Villanueva described hospitals, public or private, as the Ground Zero of the pandemic, and should not be left to deal with the surge of Covid-19 patients on their own.
Metro Manila hospitals have been releasing statements indicating they have reached maximum capacity to deal with COVID-19 cases and could no longer admit more patients.
“While the Holy Week ECQ is a circuit breaker to stop the surge of patients, the problem our hospitals are facing cannot be solved from the demand side alone,” Villanueva said.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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