LAOAG CITY—Health workers in state-run Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center (MMMH&MC) have stepped up their COVID-19 response by building a field hospital as it starts to be overwhelmed by the rising number of COVID-19 patients, officials said.
Dr. Mari Anne Quijano-Orros, MMMH&MC medical consultant, said Wednesday that the basketball court and hospital driveways were being converted into field wards.
“[This is] in view of the increasing number of [COVID-19] suspects and confirmed cases occupying the regular isolation wards,” Orros said in a Facebook post.
MMMH&MC, the primary COVID-19 treatment center in Ilocos Norte, has 65 percent of the 114 C…
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