{"id":52193,"date":"2015-06-18T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52193"},"modified":"2015-06-18T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T11:04:59","slug":"doh-urges-hospitals-to-be-vigilant-against-mers-cov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/18\/doh-urges-hospitals-to-be-vigilant-against-mers-cov\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH urges hospitals to be vigilant against MERS-CoV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 In efforts to shun the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome \u2013 Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in the<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52194\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1507054_980491968628722_5808911822414371213_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52194\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1507054_980491968628722_5808911822414371213_n.jpg\" alt=\"MERCOV Inter-Agency Task Force Meeting presided by DOH Sec. Garin (Photo from DOH's Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1507054_980491968628722_5808911822414371213_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1507054_980491968628722_5808911822414371213_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MERCOV Inter-Agency Task Force Meeting presided by DOH Sec. Garin (Photo from DOH&#8217;s Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) urged hospitals to be vigilant against the virus by taking travel history of patients and immediate reporting of possible cases.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH urged hospitals to have a triaging system which will enable them to identify if a patient has contracted MERS-CoV.<\/p>\n<p>They also advised frontline health workers to screen patients who may be carriers of infectious diseases and check them for influenza-like symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepared\u00a0for MERS-CoV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Western Visayas, DOH Region 6 director Dr. Marlyn Convocar claimed that hospitals under their region were already equipped with facilities to accommodate MERS-CoV should it enter the country.<\/p>\n<p>These hospitals are Western Visayas Medical Center in Mandurriao, Iloilo City; Western Visayas Sanitarium in Santa Barbara, Iloilo; Dumangas District Hospital in Dumangas, Iloilo; and the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.<\/p>\n<p>DOH Region 6 has also been monitoring airplane passengers arriving from foreign countries, especially those which have reported MERS-CoV cases. The DOH has been working hand-in-hand with the Bureau of Quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 In efforts to shun the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome \u2013 Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in the Philippines, the Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":52194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52193","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=52193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}