nCOVID19: upgrade health facilities to cater corona virus-infected patients
As of March 23, there are 396 ncovid19+ patients and 33 persons who expired due to this disease.
This report cited that RITM has 600 testing capacity per day while other regional hospitals with PCR & biosafety measures for testing ncovid have 100 or 50 testing capacities.
But while there area handful of identified hospitals which passed requirements as ncovid testing laboratory, the rest of Mindanao has only one (1) and its in Davao which is totally in a lockdown.
Know that all those who needed ncovid test in Mindanao have to rely on one laboratory which is 100s kilometers far from municipalities and provinces. Unless other city and regional hospitals in Mindanao are able to upgrade its facilities based on requirements, ncovid test and its results will take some time for interpretation.
These days, we acknowledge that there are hundreds of PUIs In Mindanao who are direly needing ncovid test.
LGUs need to help upgrade hospital capacities to make it as accredited for ncovid patients. This means they need to purchase PCR, establish a containment area with biosafety measures for its laboratory, and have skilled/trained laboratory staff before its will be able to afford its facility truly conducive for PUIs and for potential ncovid+ patients.
While the call to decentralize testing and interpretation of result is necessary to make it accessible in regional areas, a simultaneous efforts of local hospitals are required to improve its health system capacity to be able to accommodate and work on ncovid+patient. Otherwise, many patients will likely suffer without accurate diagnoses.
This calls for rural health units to continue public education on healthy food intake and to restrict civilians from going out in the absence of accessible remedies for ncovid in municipal and provincial areas.
https://web.facebook.com/thoughts.limits/posts/10156635479600583
This report cited that RITM has 600 testing capacity per day while other regional hospitals with PCR & biosafety measures for testing ncovid have 100 or 50 testing capacities.
But while there area handful of identified hospitals which passed requirements as ncovid testing laboratory, the rest of Mindanao has only one (1) and its in Davao which is totally in a lockdown.
Know that all those who needed ncovid test in Mindanao have to rely on one laboratory which is 100s kilometers far from municipalities and provinces. Unless other city and regional hospitals in Mindanao are able to upgrade its facilities based on requirements, ncovid test and its results will take some time for interpretation.
These days, we acknowledge that there are hundreds of PUIs In Mindanao who are direly needing ncovid test.
LGUs need to help upgrade hospital capacities to make it as accredited for ncovid patients. This means they need to purchase PCR, establish a containment area with biosafety measures for its laboratory, and have skilled/trained laboratory staff before its will be able to afford its facility truly conducive for PUIs and for potential ncovid+ patients.
While the call to decentralize testing and interpretation of result is necessary to make it accessible in regional areas, a simultaneous efforts of local hospitals are required to improve its health system capacity to be able to accommodate and work on ncovid+patient. Otherwise, many patients will likely suffer without accurate diagnoses.
This calls for rural health units to continue public education on healthy food intake and to restrict civilians from going out in the absence of accessible remedies for ncovid in municipal and provincial areas.
https://web.facebook.com/thoughts.limits/posts/10156635479600583
As of March 23, there are 396 ncovid+ patients and 33 persons who expired due to this disease.
This report cited that...Posted by Violeta M. Gloria on Sunday, March 22, 2020
