“There are even cases when hospitals pull out nursing staff in regular wards and deploy them to Covid wards, then [they] get deployed back to non-Covid wards without undergoing quarantine. “But the DoH did not issue a standard ratio for Covid wards,” Abenojar told The Manila Times. “This could be a problem because hospitals now have different implementations.”She pointed out that while the one-is-to-12 ratio was acceptable in normal wards, this should not be the case in Covid wards. Some hospitals reported that their Covid wards had one nurse attending to 12 patient. “Our local contact tracing teams nationwide are working double-time to interrupt the transmission and reduce the spread of infection.

Source: Manila Times July 19, 2020 17:14 UTC