CEBU CITY – The Department of Health (DOH) said some 164 additional nurses were deployed to private and public hospitals in Cebu to augment the existing healthcare workers manning the Covid-19 wards.
DOH Regional Director Dr. Jaime Bernadas said the deployment of more nurses to hospitals is part of their Covid-19 response following a spike in active cases in the province.
He said the nurses were deployed to the following - 40 to Chong Hua Hospital; 28 to Cebu Doctors University Hospital; 20 to Cebu City Emergency Operations Center Cebu City EOC, 14 to Perpetual Succor Hospital, and 11 to Saint Vincent General Hospital, UC Medical Center and Visayas Community Medical Center got 10 nurses each.
Bernadas said they also deployed nine nurses to the ACE Medical Center-Cebu; 7 in ARC Hospital; 5 in Cebu Velez General Hospital; 4 in Cebu South General Hospital; 4 in Lapu-Lapu City Hospital and 2 in Cebu North General Hospital.
He said the DOH deployed an additional 150 nurses to Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center from July to August this year. These nurses were hired under the Emergency Hiring of Health Personnel for Covid-19 Response when Cebu experienced a spike of Covid-19 cases and confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
Apart from nurses, the Bernadas said the DOH is also hiring doctors, medical technologists, and other support personnel.
Presidential Assistant for the Visayas, Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino, has commended the effort of the DOH in augmenting the number of healthcare workers in Central Visayas.
“Now that we have more doctors in the hospitals, our Covid-19 patients are assured of more responsive treatment. The national government exerts all efforts to augment existing medical front-liners who are already exhausted and some get sick given the more than one year in the battle against Covid-19,” Dino told the Philippine News Agency.
He also urged Cebuanos to vaccinate and strictly
follow the health protocols and quarantine guidelines. (John Rey Saavedra)
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