The number of health care workers hit with COVID-19 at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City increased to 97 Tuesday night, January 18, prompting management to limit admissions in four departments to “extreme emergency cases”.
Dr. Julius Drilon, CLMMRH chief, said 117 tested positive for COVID-19 at the hospital’s molecular laboratory Tuesday.
Forty-seven were CLMMRH health care workers bringing the total to 97, he said.
The 70 other positive samples were from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and the Bacolod City Epidemiologic Surveillance Unit, Drilon said.
Drilon said with the increase in the number of CLMMRH staff who tested positive for COVID-19 the hospital’s Department of Surgery, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Department of Pediatrics will limit its hospital admission to “extreme emergency cases” only effective immediately.
The Orthopedics Clinic will also suspend its consultation services until January 21, he added.
“Rest assured, the hospital has established protocols to swiftly address these problems and to restore the services from the different medical departments,” he said.*