Manila Bulletin
Pasay City’s public hospital reaches full capacity
Pasay City General Hospital (PCGH) announced it has reached full capacity for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients due to a surge in infections and a shortage of healthcare workers.
Dr. John Victor de Gracia, PCGH officer-in-charge, stated that all ICU beds, ward beds, emergency isolation rooms, and anterooms are fully occupied by COVID-19 patients.
The hospital can no longer accept new admissions for severe and critical COVID-19 cases, as well as non-COVID cases, due to limited manpower.
A total of 44 healthcare workers are currently in isolation or undergoing quarantine due to close contact exposure, impacting the hospital's operational capacity.
PCGH will only accept patients requiring extreme emergency or life-threatening surgical procedures.
Consultations will be available via telemedicine, and the hospital will suspend its vaccination program for the next ten days.
The hospital assured that currently admitted patients will receive proper management with the existing staff and that normal operations will resume once healthcare workers recover.
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