Pasay City General Hospital (PCGH) on Thursday announced that it has reached full capacity and will no longer accept patients due to an increase in COVID-19 cases.
Dr. John Victor de Gracia, PCGH officer-in-charge, said the hospital reached full capacity for COVID-19 patients in ICU beds, ward beds, emergency isolation rooms and anteroom.
“We wish to inform the public that we cannot accept anymore admissions for severe and critical COVID patients,” Gracia said in a statement.Gracia said a total of 44 healthcare workers, mostly nurses and ancillary personnel, were either in isolation or had close contact exposure and awaiting for their swab test results.Meanwhile, consultations would be conducted through telemedicine, while no vaccination would be held for the next 10 days.
“Please bear with us as this situation is beyond our control but rest assured that the present admitted patients will be managed well with the existing manpower,” he said.The government's COVID-19 task force has placed the National Capital Region under
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