MANILA, Aug 1 — Dozens of doctors’ groups todayy warned that the Philippines was losing the coronavirus fight, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to tighten a recently eased lockdown as cases surged and hospitals turned away patients. Eighty medical associations representing tens of thousands of...
A plastic cup with the words ‘help us’ is held by a jeepney driver who lost his livelihood amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, on a roadside in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 30, 2020. — Reuters pic
“Healthcare workers are united in sounding off a distress signal to the nation—our healthcare system has been overwhelmed,” the letter said. The health department earlier said 34 health workers are among those who have died of the disease in the Philippines. Total deaths stood at 2,039 as of Saturday.
But the government recently loosened the restrictions to allow people to return to work after predictions that the Philippine economy will fall into recession, with millions of jobs already lost. Health department officials earlier this week acknowledged hospital bed availability was drying up and the government has had limited success in hiring new doctors, nurses and other health care workers.
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