Citizen slams hospital brass

                     FOR SEIZING FOODS OF FRONT LINERS

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

A concerned citizen denounced officials of hospitals in appropriating for themselves the foods given by donors for the front liners who wrestle the killer Corona Virus Disease-19 (CONVID-19).

The source, who asked for anonymity, said that some hospital insiders in Pangasinan told her that foods like cartoons of pizza given by donors were withheld by brass of the hospitals. 

"Iyong iba inuuwi pa sa mga pamilya ang foods. Grabe!" she stressed.

Filipino restaurants displayed the Bayanihan spirit and sent free food to healthcare workers who have been on code red alert in the Philippines. Photo Credit:goodnewspilipinas.com

 These foods should be given to medical staff like doctors and nurses who grapple with patients suspected to be infected by the pandemic’s CONVID-19.

She cited these front liners sacrificed their lives and limbs in protecting and saving patients because they locked horns with the virus that gripped the forty four towns and four cities' province.

“The even provide cheap version of Personal Protective Equipment. They should buy quality PPE to preserve the lives of the medical workers who wrestled with the pandemic,” she told this writer via social media’s Messenger.

She denounced the executives of these hospitals that whenever there were media men they shoved and jostled with the crowd to be conspicuous in the photo opportunity instead of those front liners who are the real hero on this crisis that besieged the world.

Meanwhile, Pangasinan Fourth District Representative Christopher de Venecia turned over to Region-1 Medical Center Director Roland Joseph Mejia Personal Protective Equipment and other gadgets for the use of health workers against lethal phantom pandemic Corona Virus Disease-19.

De Venecia said he gave 80 PPEs, masks, and 400 googles to the R1MC.

The equipment was part of the over P170 million worth of PPEs and medical supplies to over 50 hospitals nationwide given by the SM Foundation.

These include ICU-grade ventilators; test kits including the local Manila Healthtek kits developed by the UP-NIH team, and FDA-approved PCR kits from Korea; and personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. The Philippine General Hospital, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), the Lung Center of the Philippines was among the recipients. Photo shows Medical City Manila medical frontliners in their new PPE outfits.