{"id":252990,"date":"2020-04-23T05:44:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252990"},"modified":"2020-04-23T05:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:44:47","slug":"covid-19-confirmed-bilibid-inmate-referred-to-ritm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/23\/covid-19-confirmed-bilibid-inmate-referred-to-ritm\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 confirmed Bilibid inmate referred to RITM"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230338\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NBP-Fasade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230338\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NBP-Fasade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NBP-Fasade.jpg 576w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NBP-Fasade-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: New Bilibid Prison (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bucor.gov.ph\/facilities\/NBP%20Fasade.jpg\">Photo By Jovie Naval via Bureau of Corrections\/Website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Thursday said it has referred to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) a male person deprived of liberty (PDL) who has tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the BuCor said the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City is assessing its implementation of operational plans after the patient from the national penitentiary&#8217;s Medium Security Compound was checked at the NBP Hospital on April 17 and was referred to the RITM on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>As a precautionary measure, the BuCor did contact tracing and has put 40 PDLs in isolated areas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, medical staff members who attended to the patient are also considered as suspect cases and are now under quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>The BuCor added that PDLs earlier identified as having been exposed to the patient and who were subsequently isolated were finally transferred to the bigger quarantine area at &#8220;Site Harry&#8221; where they will be monitored more effectively while waiting to be tested for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Prison medical staff members are now providing focused medical care to all suspect cases.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete, meanwhile, said the quarantine area within the NBP has already been set up with 300 beds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are coordinating with DPWH (Department of Public Works and Highways) for the construction of a bigger quarantine area just in case there is a need for it,&#8221; Perete said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Department of Health has committed an initial 10,000 test kits for PDLs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Thursday said it has referred to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":230338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252990","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252991,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252990\/revisions\/252991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}