PHO chief Dr. Rosanna Buccahan briefs Dinalupihan Mayor Maria Angela Garcia on the ongoing vaccination of medical frontliners. Photo by Ernie Esconde
BALANGA CITY — Bataan hospitals, both public and private, can still accommodate patients whether with the coronavirus disease or other ailments, while there are enough spaces in quarantine facilities.
“Patients can still be admitted and accommodated in hospitals in the province,” provincial health office chief Dr. Rosanna Buccahan said Friday.
Based on the online bed monitoring system as of March 19, of the 1,495–bed capacity of quarantine facilities all over the province, only 42 are occupied leaving 1,453 still available, Buccahan reported.
She said that of the seven public hospitals and eight private ones, six admit Covid–19 patients. These are the government-run Bataan General Hospital and Medical Center, Mariveles District Hospital, and Dinalupihan District Hospital and privately-owned Centro Medico De Santismo Rosario, Bataan St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center and Bataan Doctors’ Hospital and Medical Center.
BGHMC and the three private hospitals are located in Balanga City.
Latest report as of Friday from the online monitoring system showed that regardless of Covid–19 or non-Covid cases, the six hospitals have beds already occupied at an average rate of 62.77 percent.
BGHMC has 86.58 percent of its beds occupied, Mariveles District Hospital with 81 percent, Dinalupihan District Hospital at 50 percent, Centro Medico at 74.74 percent, St. Joseph at 52.44 percent, and Bataan Doctors at 61.9 percent.
Based also on the monitoring system, the seven public hospitals as of March 19 have beds occupied at an average rate of 66.42 percent while the eight private hospitals at 66.75 percent. These include even non-Covid cases.
Of all the hospitals in the province, only the bed capacities of the Mariveles Mental Wellness and General Hospital and the Bataan Peninsula Medical Center in Dinalupihan are 100 percent occupied.
Meanwhile, the PHO reported that as of Thursday, the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases rose to 4,010 with 72 active ones after the addition of nine who tested positive that day.
The number of those who recovered reached 3,844 after the recording of six new recoveries.
Vaccination for Covid-19 was ongoing with 2,446 medical frontliners already inoculated from March 8 to the present. The province has so far received 3,717 doses of vaccines from the national government, Buccahan said.
