Laguna hospital staff use plastic, trash bags as improvised PPEs

Several health care workers in St. Jude Family Hospital in Los Baños, Laguna were forced to wear makeshift personal protective equipment (PPE) as supplies had run out.

According to a report on “24 Oras Weekend,” the medical workers from the hospital improvised their own PPE because stores, as well as the hospital itself, already ran out of stocks.

Instead of the usual PPE, the frontliners wore trash bags to cover their bodies. They also used yellow plastic bags to cover their head, hands, and feet to safeguard themselves against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Meanwhile, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said there were donations of PPE for the country’s frontliners.

She added the DOH would make sure medical supplies were equally distributed among hospitals.

For those who want to donate PPE, masks, medicines and other medical equipment for health workers, you may call (02) 8651 7800 local 1149.

As of Sunday, the number of confirmed COVID-19 patients in the Philippines climbed to 380 with 25 deaths. — Ma. Angelica Garcia/DVM, GMA News