MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo has questioned the accuracy of the Department of Health (DOH) data on available hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, claiming it differs from the reality that patients were experiencing on the ground.
According to Robredo, they have been receiving distress calls from people struggling to find hospitals for their coronavirus-infected relatives — stressing that hospitals currently being considered by them were as far as Nueva Ecija, Laguna, and Batangas.
DOH’s COVID-19 bulletin on Monday showed that intensive care units (ICU) beds allocated to patients are 76 percent occupied, while isolation beds are 70 percent full. Ho…
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