PAGADIAN CITY — Crammed with patients infected with the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center (ZSMC) has temporarily stopped admission of new cases starting Friday.
Dr. Anatalio Cagampang Jr., ZSMC chief, said they are thankful that private hospitals have agreed to take in the slack. He said that as of Friday, ZSMC caters to 137 COVID-19 cases while its dedicated facilities were only designed to accommodate only 97.
ZSMC, the province’s main COVID-19 referral facility, has 47 hospital-based accommodation and 50 in temporary treatment and monitoring facilities built near it.
As of Friday, the province had 558 active cases of which 51 percent a…
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