Army sending medical teams to help in Bacolod’s COVID fight

From Panay News (Oct 3, 2020): Army sending medical teams to help in Bacolod’s COVID fight (By Mae Singuay)

BACOLOD City – The Philippine Army is deploying three more medical teams here to augment healthcare workers attending coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in various hospitals.

According to Mayor Evelio Leonardia, the impending arrival of this additional manpower was confirmed by Lieutenant General Roberto Ancan, commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Central Command based in Cebu City.

“The teams will augment our local hospitals’ health care manpower complement,” Leonardia added.

Each team will have one doctor, four nurses and a still-unspecified number of aide personnel.

These three teams would replace the two teams deployed to the city in the last week of August once the latter’s tour of duty ends.

The initial two teams, with six members each, were assigned to two private hospitals in the city.

Each team was composed of one doctor, two nurses, and three aide men.

One was dispatched to the Dr. Pablo O. Torre Memorial Hospital (Riverside Medical Center) while the other was deployed to the Bacolod Queen of Mercy Hospital.

The deployment of augmentation healthcare personnel to Bacolod came as part of the response to Leonardia’s appeal for assistance from President Rodrigo Duterte in August.

Last month, the Department of Health 7 deployed 15 nurses to Bacolod through the assistance of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas headed by Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino, which is part of the Cebu team assisting Bacolod in its battle against COVID-19.

Leonardia had also asked the National Task Force Against COVID-19 to deploy more nurses to hospitals in Bacolod as the city government continues to strengthen efforts to reduce local cases of COVID-19.

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