BACOLOD City – Starting next week, the City Health Office’s lying-in clinic (CHO) will no longer accept patients showing symptoms similar to those of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
“In our daily reports, there are always pregnant women getting infected,” said City Administrator Em Ang who also serves as executive director of the Emergency Operations Center Task Force (EOC-TF).
“We are making a study on that right now. In fact we are planning to meet with the Philippine Obstetrics and Gynecologist Society in the next few days. We’d like to find out what is causing these cases,” she added.
For the time being, CHO will regulate patients being catered at the lying-in clinic to protect other patients, especially expectant mothers, from the viral disease.
However, in line with the triaging scheme, Ang advised patients exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms to proceed to the Bacolod Respiratory Outpatient (BRO) center at the Bacolod Arts, Youth and Sports Center on San Juan Street.
“The BRO Center will be our catchment area,” she said.
Earlier, Inter-Agency Task Force-Visayas chief implementer Mel Feliciano said 20 percent of “probable” or those patients with flu-like symptoms indeed tested positive for COVID-19./PN
