PRC Medical Tent in Cebu City Medical Center.
With COVID-19 cases spiking up in Cebu City and OCTA Research declaring that the city is “in the midst of the worst COVID-19 surge”, Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and CEO Senator Richard J. Gordon sent additional medical tents to PRC’s Cebu City Chapter.
With Gordon’s initiative, PRC is all geared up to support the City Government of Cebu as the queen city of the south, as there were already 3,316 cases in the city as of August 8, 2021.
This prompted Gordon and the PRC to act swiftly as there is a need to adapt an agressive approach in the timely extraction, isolation, and treatment of COVID positive individuals.
Senator Gordon also directed the PRC to send 300 cadaver bags as Cebu City is seeing an average of 6 to 7 confirmed or suspected COVID-related deaths a day since the start of August.
“What’s happening in Cebu is truly alarming. That I why I immediately had sent the additional medical tents para sa mga kababayan natin diyan sa Cebu. The PRC will always be there, and I’ll make sure of it, para labanan natin ang pandemyang ito,” said Senator Gordon.
Last June 2020, the Gordon-led PRC put into action a health support program by deploying medical tents to serve as triages and isolation areas in Cebu to respond to the surge of cases in the region.
According to PRC Cebu Chapter Administrator Atty. Vera De Jesus, the chapter already has six medical tents, yet today it received six more from the PRC National Headquarters in Mandaluyong. Each tent measures 72 square meters with an eight to ten-bed capacity and is fully equipped. The tents will be placed at the Cebu City Medical Center and Chong Hua Hospital to augment the need of extra beds for COVID-19 patients.
