By Zaldy Comanda
BAGUIO CITY – Three patients afflicted with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have reportedly recovered and discharged from the hospitals they were confined in for the past two weeks.
Joel Junsay, 52, a health worker from City Health Services Office, the first patient to respond to Mayor Benjie Magalong's call for identity disclosure for transparency, was discharged yesterday from Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center.(BGHMC).
A simple program was conducted yesterday by the BGHMC staff led by Dr. Ricardo Ruñez Jr., and attended by Magalong and his co-health workers.
At the St. Louis University Hospital of the Sacred Heart, Jaysay Bactad, 67, the city's 11th COVID-19 confirmed patient, was also disharged Monday with a simple send-off program by the medical staff headed by Dr.Paul Quitiquit, and also attended by Magalong.
Bactad was reunited with her husband Enrico, who, himself, was a COVID-19 survivor after having been release last week from the Notre Dame de Chartres.
The couple earlier gave Magalong the permission to reveal their identities to help in contact tracing.
And on Tuesday morning (April 14), physician Manuel Kelly was also discharged from BGHMC.
Their discharge leaves on two COVID-19 patients current admitted in the hospital, with Rosemarie Cantong, 46, from Barangay Upper Dagsian as the newest case.