2 Kidapawan doctors, 21 health personnel quarantined

KIDAPAWAN CITY — At least 30 individuals, including two doctors and 21 health personnel in a private hospital here, were placed under strict community quarantine after their reported exposure to an 84-year-old male who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Mayor Joseph Evangelista said the doctors and the health personnel of a private hospital here who had direct contact with the COVID-19 patient were told to stay at the Kidapawan City Quarantine Center for 14 days while awaiting results of their Reverse TranscriptionPolymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test.

The patient, from Estanol Subdivision, Barangay Sudapin, had a checkup at a hospital on Monday but was referred to a bigger hospital in Davao City.

Evangelista said that during the patient’s checkup, he was already having shortness of breath.

He added that a few hours after the patient’s checkup, he was immediately transferred to the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) in Davao City where he was placed at the intensive care unit (ICU). An RT-PCR test was conducted and later yielded positive result for COVID-19

Evangelista placed under “focused containment” or “partial lockdown” the street leading to the Estanol Subdivision in Barangay Sudapin where the patient resides.

Seven of his immediate family members were told to strictly stay at home. For their food and medicine needs, the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT) will be assisting them.