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CDO’s Covid-19 isolation beds increase to over 600

By Franck Dick Rosete

February 1, 2022, 6:23 pm

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The local government here has received additional 141 isolation beds for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases from different private and public hospitals in this city.

Dr. Ted Yu Jr., medical officer of the city health office (CHO), said in an online briefer Tuesday the additional beds were from various private hospitals, including the JR Borja General Hospital, a public hospital managed by the city government.

This is in response to their recent meeting to fight the increasing number of admitted positive cases in the city.

Yu said this brought the total of Covid-19 beds in the city to 661 from 520 beds previously and the primary reason why the total bed utilization rate went down to 62.17 percent.

City Mayor Oscar Moreno commended the huge help and effort of the different hospitals and underscored the importance of the total bed utilization rate as one of the indicators to be checked by the National Inter-Agency Task (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease for the Covid-19 classification in every area in the country.

"Let's give a big round of applause to our private and public hospitals, especially the Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) for adjusting by providing additional isolation beds. We are worried if the total bed utilization rate will go to over 70 percent as this will be considered high-risk," Moreno said.

He said because our number of beds went up from 520 to 611, the percentage (of the total bed utilization rate) went down; and the problem became less heavy," he said.

However, despite the increase of the isolation beds, Moreno also urged the public to not get infected by the virus by following the minimum public health standards in order to avoid admission of patients from hospitals.

As of January 31, the city has 618 Covid-19 positive cases who have been admitted to different hospitals. 158 of which are currently admitted in NMMC, 79 are admitted in a Covid-19 facility in Barangay San Simon that is also under the supervision of NMMC, and 381 cases are admitted in different hospitals.

On the other hand, the city's average daily attack rate (ADAR) and the two-week growth rate (2WGR) remain at high-risk with 38.19 percent for ADAR and 294 percent for 2WGR, Moreno said.

As of January 31, the city government has reported 189 new Covid-19 cases detected, bringing the total to 23,467 cases; of which 2,381 are active, 20,211 are already recovered and 875 have died.

Yu also urged unvaccinated individuals to have their shots as this will help to avoid severe cases of Covid-19 if they got infected.

The city already tallied 515,027 fully vaccinated individuals. This is equivalent to 89.12 percent of the city's target population of 574,491, as of January 31.

There are also 41,164 individuals who have received their first dose and 65,601 from fully vaccinated individuals who have already received their booster shots. (PNA)

 

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