BACOLOD City – The city’s respiratory outpatient center here is now set to be used as a consulting center for mild respiratory cases as part of its response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
City Administrator Em Ang said the facility is available for city residents who have respiratory symptoms or illnesses, and need to consult a doctor, without necessarily going to a hospital.
“This is another initiative of the local government in its effort to fight Covid-19,” she said.
At around 12:30 a.m. on Monday, Mayor Evelio Leonardia conducted an inspection of the BRO facility located inside the Bacolod Arts, Youth and Sports (BAYS) Center on San Juan Street.
Ang said volunteer doctors from the Canlaon Medical Society and the Negros Occidental Medical Society will provide consultation services.
The facility will cater patients with respiratory conditions such as cough, nasal congestion, asthma or flu. Volunteer doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals will be available at scheduled hours.
Ang said that with the center now in place, patient traffic will be lesser in emergency rooms and outpatient department in hospitals.
The respiratory center has a triage area, 10 separate consultation rooms, a laboratory collection room, and a mobile X-ray machine.
The city government has also set up a quarantine center for persons under monitoring (PUMs) in the former campus of South Hills Academy in Barangay Alijis.
Also being prepared is the center for patients under investigation (PUIs) in the vacated school building of West Negros University Integrated School in Barangay Mandalagan. (With PNA/PN)
