Pasay City’s lone public hospital, the Pasay City General Hospital (PCGH), has added additional beds devoted to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients as well as Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds amid the surging COVID-19 cases in the city due to the Delta variant.
Dr. John Victor de Gracia, PCGH officer-in-charge, reported that aside from the additional COVID-19 beds, the hospital also added four ICU beds, bringing the total to 14.
De Gracia said adding more beds for COVID-19 patients was in response to the sudden increase of severe and critical cases being admitted at the hospital.
He said the hospital retains the number of COVID-19 transition ward at 19.
De Gracia also said some hospital staff in non-COVID-19 areas were also deployed to COVID-19 areas to handle critical cases.
De Gracia said the delivery of oxygen will be made three times a day while COVID-19 medicine and supplies are still pending.
He said elective Operating Room Service (ORS) was temporarily suspended, Out-Patient Department (OPD) diagnostic will have a limit on the number of procedures, while the use of hemodialysis units will be limited to two shifts.
The hospital OIC said the hospital also accepts patients coming from the One Hospital Command even if they are not Pasay City residents.
Based on the report of the City Health Office (CHO) on August 15, the city recorded a total of 626 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 66 new cases.