MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Heart Center (PHC) in Quezon City will start to limit its operations after most of its health workers were exposed to a patient who became positive for 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Health (DOH) said Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT“As of now, PHC is limiting its hospital operations to accommodate in-patient and emergency cases only,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an online press conference of DOH. Hospital services for Z-benefit packages and elective cases in the PHC are temporarily suspended for now, Vergeire said. Earlier, Vergeire said the hospital has 13 PUIs, of which, 12 are health personnel while one is a non-health personnel. The health workers interacted with patient number 37 who is an 88-year-old Filipina.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 14, 2020 10:41 UTC