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53 healthcare facilities damaged by quake: DOH
FILE: MAHIGIT isang daang (100) cot beds at dalawampung (20) tents ang binigay ng Department of Health (DOH) sa Abra Provincial Hospital (APH) ngayong araw. (Photo: PIA Abra/Facebook)
Of the tally, eight were hospitals, 28 are rural health units, and 18 barangay health stations.
According to the DOH’s Centers for Health Development from the Cordillera Administration Region (CHD CAR), some 272 individuals were injured, including 19 patients confined in hospitals. There were also four deaths and four missing cases.
“The DOH Central Office is on the ground with the local government units and has already extended its assistance by sending trucks carrying 20 tents, 200 cot beds, hygiene kits, medicines and other supplies,” DOH Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary for Public Health Services Team Beverly Ho said in online media briefing Thursday.
Two medical teams from Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center and Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center have been deployed to the sites.
The DOH is also assisting the Abra Provincial Hospital in providing aid to the affected residents.
“Assistant Secretary Nestor Santiago, along with his team, is currently in the region joining Regional Director Rio Magpantay of the CHD CAR to personally assess the status of our healthcare workers and their facilities,” Ho said.
She also assured the public that the DOH is exhausting all efforts to ensure that healthcare services are not hampered, and the needs of the affected residents are taken care of by its implementing units.
Carl Kenneth Balita
July 29, 2022 at 6:47 AM
It’s hard to accept the fact that being able to help others you must sacrifice and risks yourself, but as a healthworker it is their duties to help people especially those who are wounded despite the fact that they will get in trouble too Salute to the healthworker and other people involving their self in helping and caring our co Filipinos in Abra. Stay safe to all.
John Jerome Serrano
July 29, 2022 at 11:28 AM
We must be proud to our health workers because they sacrifice their life because of doing their duties,their hardworks will never be paid by money…because they are sincere and they loved their duties
Alfredo Gagar
July 29, 2022 at 11:30 AM
Being a healthcare worker is not easy,they have lots of sacrifices for their fellow man….the government should give them allowance and extra pay for doing their jobs