32 Doctors & Nurses in Tondo Hospital Fall Ill After Taking Care of COVID-19 Patients
TONDO HOSPITAL – The Ospital ng Tondo is temporarily closed for ten days afters 32 of its doctors and nurses got sick.
The COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed over 500,000 lives across the globe. It is shaking the healthcare system of more than 200 countries and territories now. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) is alarmed by how quickly the disease has spread.
In the Philippines, there are recently huge daily increases in the total coronavirus cases recorded by the Department of Health. According to DOH, there is now a total of 147,526 coronavirus cases recorded in the country.
Out of the said total number, the health department recorded 2,426 deaths. There are 70,387 patients of coronavirus who have reportedly recovered already.
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Manila is one of the cities with a huge number of COVID-19 cases. Based on a report on ABS-CBN News, more than 5,000 cases of coronavirus were recorded in the city.
Many doctors and nurses fell ill after tending to COVID-19 patients in Ospital ng Tondo. According to the report, Mayor Isko Moreno expressed that the said Tondo hospital will be temporarily closed for 10 days.
The said decision was made to give the doctors and nurses of the Tondo hospital who got sick after tending to COVID-19 patients time to rest, relax, and recover. While some patients may be rerouted to other hospitals for the mean time, Ospital ng Tondo will still accept cases that need urgent treatment.
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