BACOLOD City – Three patients under investigation(PUIs) have been discharged from the hospital over the weekend after testing negative for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) acute respiratory disease.
Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran confirmed this on Monday, saying all patients are now in stable condition.
Familiaran, who chairs the Bacolod City Inter-Agency Task Force Against the nCoV, said the three PUIs include a 43-year-old Canadian national, a 12-year-old boy and a 59-year-old female.
As of Monday, the City Health Office (CHO) reported six PUIs over their travel to nCoV-hit areas and were admitted in tertiary hospitals here.
Familiaran said the new PUI is a female and resident of this city. She was confined in a hospital here just in the afternoon yesterday.
Meanwhile, CHO Environment and Sanitation Division head Grace Tan, spokesperson of the city’s 2019-nCoV task force, disclosed that more PUIs are set to be discharged today.
Tan said the patients that are still in quarantine are now in stable condition and waiting for their confirmatory result.
She added that the task force through the CHO will purchase protective equipment to be utilized by the medical team of the hospital specifically in the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.
Tan said that the BCPO was also tasked by the city in case there will be resistance from the PUIs.
Last week, the City Council approved a P10-million funding support to the inter-agency task force for the prevention and control of nCoV.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia also ordered the mobilization of barangay health emergency response teams to monitor and provide information to the city mayor about residents and visitors in their respective barangays who have arrived from a nCoV-affected country./PN
