{"id":249669,"date":"2020-03-24T03:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T07:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249669"},"modified":"2020-03-24T03:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T07:49:43","slug":"ph-navy-facilitates-bunny-suit-donation-for-lung-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/24\/ph-navy-facilitates-bunny-suit-donation-for-lung-center\/","title":{"rendered":"PH Navy facilitates &#8216;bunny suit&#8217; donation for Lung Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphilippinenavy%2Fposts%2F10157316757857956&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"794\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Navy (PN) and various stakeholders on Monday night turned over 50 medical protective overalls or &#8220;bunny suits&#8221; to the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP).<\/p>\n<p>This is in response to the appeal of hospital officials for more personal protective equipment (PPE) suits and gowns as their supplies are running out amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) crisis.<\/p>\n<p>PN public affairs office chief Lt. Commander Maria Christina Roxas said the &#8220;bunny suits&#8221; were requested from Tsukiden Philippines, LTI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recognizing the ordeals of our health care workers on the frontline of this pandemic, the (Navy) chief directed concerned PN units to engage and coordinate with partner-stakeholders to help sustain the hospital\u2019s capability to handle Covid-19 patients,&#8221; Roxas added.<\/p>\n<p>She said former PN flag-officer-in-command, retired Vice Admiral Mateo Mayuga, recommended to Navy chief Rear Adm. Giovanni Carlo Bacordo to seek the assistance of the Bi\u00f1an, Laguna-based electronic manufacturing company, through Jun Papa and Herson Tabanda, who immediately responded and donated the 50 &#8220;bunny suits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Navy personnel picked up and transported the donated medical coveralls to the LCP, demonstrating its ability to link donors to beneficiaries especially in this time of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Roxas said these &#8220;bunny suits&#8221; will augment the dwindling number of protective suits in the LCP which, according to Dr. Antonio Ramos, a Lung Center official, \u201cuses about 80 to 100 suits a day as it handles 40 patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this, the PN continuously appeals for more donations of needed equipment for our medical front-liners in the Lung Center of the Philippines as they are expanding their services after the government assigned it as among the country\u2019s dedicated Covid-19 hospitals,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Navy (PN) and various stakeholders on Monday night turned over 50 medical protective overalls or &#8220;bunny suits&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":249670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249671,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249669\/revisions\/249671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}