BY Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga
The Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) issued an advisory yesterday morning, stating that two of their medical wards have reached their maximum occupancy of beds allocated for COVID patients.
Dr. Julius Drilon, CLMMRH Medical Center Chief, said the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will limit their admission of patients until further notice.
“Further, due to fluidity of the situation at the COVID wards of CLMMRH, the Public Advisory No. 7 issued last May 22, 2021 will be updated in a timely manner,” Drilon said.
The medical center chief assured that the hospital is collaborating with Local Government Units and the City of Bacolod to ensure the effective and efficient coordination of patient transfers and their hospital needs. Drilon has also recommended the CLMMRH’s Operations Center to coordinate all patient transport. The CLMMRH earlier announced it would limit hospital admissions as their COVID-designated beds were nearing full capacity.
“The hospital’s dedicated hospital beds for COVID-19 regular patients is nearing its full capacity of 93 percent,” Drilon said.
He added that six out of seven dedicated Intensive Care Unit beds for COVID-19 patients were already occupied. The medical center also observed an increasing positivity rate in detecting COVID-19 cases in the local population. Drilon said the range of positivity is currently at 32.7 percent to 42.2 percent./PN
