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Metro hospitals with more than 50% utilization rate mid-March

Published Mar 19, 2021 01:28 pm

More hospitals in Metro Manila are filling up with patients as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the country.

(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)

The OCTA Research Group had earlier warned that occupancy rates in Metro hospitals might reach 70 percent by the end of March.

As of March 19, here are the metro hospitals — public and private — which have utilized 50 percent and above of their COVID bed capacities:

CALOOCAN

  • Caloocan Medical Center (50%)

LAS PIÑAS

  • Las Piñas Doctors Hospital (53.1%)
  • Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center (61.8%)

MAKATI

  • Makati Medical Center (92.5%)
  • Ospital ng Makati (99%)

MALABON

  • San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital (60%)
  • Ospital ng Malabon (70%)

MANDALUYONG

  • Mandaluyong City Medical Center (91.3%)

MANILA

  • Philippine General Hospital (84.1%)
  • Ospital ng Sampaloc (67.7%)
  • Sta. Ana Hospital (98.5%)
  • Medical Center Manila (85.1%)
  • Manila East Medical Center (FULL CAPACITY)
  • Adventist Medical Center Manila (68%)
  • Tondo Medical Center (70.6%)

MARIKINA

  • Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center (55.4%)

MUNTINLUPA

  • Ospital ng Muntinlupa (96.6%)
  • Medical Center Muntinlupa (88%)
  • Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (66.7%)

NAVOTAS

  • Navotas City Hospital (64.3%)

PASAY

  • Pasay City General Hospital (69.6%)

SAN JUAN

  • San Juan Medical Center (55.6%)
  • Cardinal Santos Medical Center (72.3%)

TAGUIG/PATEROS

  • St. Luke’s Medical Center - Global City (83.9%)
  • Medical Center of Taguig City (72.2%)
  • Taguig-Pateros District Hospital (63.7%)

QUEZON CITY

  • East Avenue Medical Center (94.6%)
  • Lung Center of the Philippines (80%)
  • St. Luke’s Medical Center (80.2%)
  • Quirino Memorial Medical Center (80.4%)
  • National Kidney and Transplant Institute (68.6%)
  • Philippine Heart Center (79.6)

There are 159 facilities in the National Capital Region that cater to COVID-19 patients.

Overall, Metro Manila’s current bed occupancy rate is at 53.4 percent, with 4,399 occupied COVID-19 beds out of 8,231, based on DOH data.

Eighty-seven percent (87%) of Metro hospitals are still at the “safe” occupancy rate, 23 percent are at “high risk,” another 23 percent are at “critical level”, and 17 percent are at “moderate risk.”

(Data gathered from DOH’s website and local government units of each metro city; with reports from Ally Nievera, Patrick Garcia, Jel Santos, and Minka Tiangco)

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