The Pasay City General Hospital on Saturday announced it could no longer accept patients, saying all beds of the facility were fully occupied.
PCGH Officer in Charge Dr. John Victor de Gracia said hospital’s intensive care units emergency room and the ward room for persons infected with coronavirus disease were in full capacity.
“As of 12 noon (March 27), all the eight ICU beds and all the 28 regular beds for confirmed COVID-19 patients are 100 percent occupied,” said De Gracia.
“There are still six confirmed cases at the transition wards waiting to be transferred to our COVID-19 confirmed wards, and there are still five probable cases at ER waiting to be admitted at our transition wards,” said De Gracia.
“The hospital is really saturated for positive patients,” he added.
On Friday, the hospital management announced that De Gracia, himself, and 14 other health workers were tested positive for COVID-19 even after having been vaccinated earlier.
But according to De Gracia, they were now in stable condition and were expected to recover soon. “Almost all of us are asymptomatic or with mild symptoms. One is admitted as moderate risk. But he is fine,” he said.
The 15 health workers tested positive include two doctors, four nurses, four nursing helpers, a medical technologist, a pharmacist and three administrative personnel.
“Fortunately, we were vaccinated before we became infected. If it had happened before we were injected we might have had the situation become serious,” said De Gracia.
The hospital management earlier issued a memorandum ordering the temporary closure of the hospital’s Out Patient Department Teleconsultation.