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 pati...