MANILA, Philippines — As hospitals battled the explosion of COVID-19 cases and shortage of beds, many patients may have been forced to stay outside or lay on the ground while receiving treatment.
Photos sent to INQUIRER.net by a netizen showed harrowing conditions at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City, where patients had been sleeping in the open at the facility or were being treated there in wheelchairs.
One of the photos showed a makeshift tent with ER patients sitting in wheelchairs rather than hospital beds as they should.
INQUIRER.net contacted NKTI, and they admitted they were working way over capacity when it came to COVID-19 units an…
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