MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Christopher Go is pushing for measures to fill the gaps in the country’s healthcare system so that it could improve its response to the current COVID-19 pandemic and to other possible health emergencies in the future.
Last Thursday, May 6, in a speech before the Committee on Health, which he chairs, Go acknowledge the need to expand the capacity of the healthcare system to address the still high number of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila and four surrounding provinces — or the so-called National Capital Region (NCR) Plus bubble.
“In this pandemic, our problem is the shortage in hospitals bed, particularly intensive care unit beds. We also need to bu…
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