Pasay City General Hospital reaches full capacity due to rise in COVID-19 cases

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.

“We are also declaring stop admission for non-COVID cases due to shortage of manpower,” he added.

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.

He said only extreme emergency or life threatening surgical procedures would be accepted.

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.

“Once our HCWs (healthcare workers) recover we will resume our normal operations.”

The government's COVID-19 task force has placed the National Capital Region (NCR) under Alert Level 3 from January 3 to 15, 2022 following the increase of COVID-19 infections in the country. —Richa Noriega/KBK, GMA News