PROTECTION. Personal protective equipment (PPEs) is being readied for distribution to health personnel on March 19, 2020. Belison’s municipal government also provided its health workers with free rides to the provincial hospital in San Jose de Buenavista starting Friday (March 20, 2020). (PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – Health practitioners in the province of Antique have since Thursday been provided with personal protective equipment (PPEs) by the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) as protection against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Health workers and personnel of the local disaster risk reduction and management office assigned to implement border restriction have been provided with PPEs, IPHO chief, Dr. Ric Noel Naciongayo, said during a press conference on Friday.
The PPEs consist of surgical masks, clean gloves, alcohol, and raincoat in place of the surgical gown for those who would be transporting patients under investigation and persons under monitoring with a high fever.
Health workers who are doing thermal scanning at the border in Barangay Lindero in Libertad; Barangay Buang in Pandan; Lipata Port in Barangay Lipata in Culasi; and Barangay San Francisco in Anini-y were also provided with infrared thermal scanners and forms for medical assessment.
Meanwhile, IPHO information officer Irene Dulduco said Belison’s municipal government has begun providing free rides to health workers reporting to the Angel Salazar Memorial General Hospital here.
In an interview, Belison Mayor Christopher Piccio said Thursday that given the difficulty faced by health workers in getting a ride to San Jose de Buenavista, Belison would provide them with a van so as not to hamper the delivery of services.
“We have a lockdown, should we say for 14 days, in Belison and the 24 jeepney owners cooperated,” Piccio said.
He said tricycles have stopped operating since March 16. (PNA)
