By Froilan Gallardo
Special Correspondent
TWO government-run hospitals here will get two off-site modular hospitals for Covid-19 patients.
Ariel Hernandez, a senior adviser to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said the vaccination czar phoned him to inform the Northern Mindanao Medical Center and JR Borja General Hospital they will be getting the two 100-bed capacity modular hospitals.
Hernandez said the construction of the two hospitals would be completed in 45 days.
Mayor Oscar Moreno confirmed this during his daily press briefing yesterday saying this would help “ease the problem of hospital beds for the Covid-19 patients”
Moreno said the two hospitals — the city-owned JR Borja General Hospital and NMMC, the main referral hospital for Covid-19 — are already “filled to the brim with patients.”
“These modular hospitals can ease the strain and relieved those confined in the temporary treatment monitoring facilities,” Moreno said.
The Department of Health Region 10 briefer on August 19 said there are 536 new Covid-19 cases recorded throughout northern Mindanao and many of these patients end up in the NMMC, straining its bed capacity.
The briefer said Cagayan de Oro recorded 156 cases while neighboring Bukidnon province recorded 160 cases.
Moreno said with the new hospitals, the next problem to be solved is where to find nurses and doctors for these facilities.
