SAN JOSE, Antique – The Antique Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) is currently doing contact tracing following the death of a person under investigation (PUI) at the Antique Medical Center (AMC) here.
IPHO chief Dr. Ric Noel Naciongayo said that the Antique Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) immediately initiated the contact tracing on the family members, health workers and those who were exposed to the patient, who died on March 27.
“We have to conduct contract tracing so that we could monitor their health conditions as well as put them on quarantine as we wait for the laboratory result to arrive,” Naciongayo said on March 30.
He added that the result of the swabs taken from the said PUI and then eventually sent to the Western Visayas Medical Center in Mandurriao, Iloilo City is expected to arrive anytime within the day.
According to Naciongayo, the IATF for COVID-19 is also proposing to Gov. Rhodora Cadiao to extend the enhanced community quarantine in the province, which will supposedly end on March 31.
“We want to be very sure that our province will remain COVID-19 free,” he said.
Meanwhile, the AMC already stopped admitting patients since March 28 after some of its nurses and health workers were placed under quarantine following the death of the PUI.(With a report from PNA/PN)
