MORE ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES HELP CITY GOV’T

A motel is offering its rooms to be used to admit PUIs while a hotel is opening rooms for health workers

MORE private accommodation facilities in Davao City has opened their rooms to support the city government’s efforts in fighting the coronavirus disease (Covid-19),

Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio announced in a radio interview on Wednesday afternoon, March 25, that her brother, Vice Mayor Sebastian Duterte, was able to secure 240 rooms from Queensland Hotel, wherein the management pledged to alot its rooms to the city government as a PUI site to decongest the Southern Philippines Medicine Center (SPMC), the only Covid-19 center in the city.

The city mayor said they already sent personnel from the City Engineer’s Office (CEO) and other concerned offices to inspect the hotel.

“Ongoing na ang joint inspection sa CEO, and other offices sa city government, as this will receive PUIs considered mild sa atong SPMC (CEO and other city government offices is currently conducting a joint inspection, as this will receive PUIs considered mild by the SPMC),” Duterte-Carpio said in an interview on 87.5 FM Davao City Disaster Radio.

Currently, the city has identified the Rehabilitation Center Building and the Boy Scouts of the Philippines sites in Malagos and the Alternative Learning (ALS) Building in downtown as quarantine areas for PUIs showing mild symptoms of the virus.

This comes days after another drive-in motel, Oh George!, extended help to the health workers who were evicted from their dormitories, after having a dialogue with the vice mayor.

Oh George! spokesperson

Zeus dela Fuente said they have prepared 13 rooms at their Ecoland branch to house them for free.

Meanwhile, Apo View Hotel of Davao also announced they are allotting 50 rooms for SPMC frontliners.

The Apo management said they offered their rooms as temporary residences so they need not go home and possibly contaminate their families.

Decongest SPMC

The mayor, meanwhile, is calling other private hospitals to cater indigent patients to lessen the patients going to SPMC, since it is the only “primary hospital” in the city for PUIs and Covid-19 positive patients.

She added they wanted to unload indigent patients, who continue to go to the hospital where their hospital bills can be subsidized by the government. /For full story visit sunstar.com.ph/davao RGL