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St. Luke's Medical Center opens 'free' grocery store for its health workers battling COVID-19

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<p>MANILA - Health workers at the St. Luke&#x27;s Medical Center (SLMC) can now get essential items for free after the hospital opened a special &quot;make-shift store&quot; for them on Friday, as frontliners continue to struggle with the influx of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.</p><p>Among the items SLMC health workers can get for free in the &quot;Care Store&quot; are canned goods, bread, fruits, and beverages.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/StLukesPH/posts/2976682762411488" data-width="auto"> </div><p>&quot;This make-shift store aims to provide the hospital’s frontliners and their families FREE grocery items, as a token of appreciation for their hard work and selfless efforts to continuously provide patient care amid the COVID-19 crisis,&quot; the hospital said in a statement</p><p>Each health worker is given some &quot;care points&quot; every week which they can use to purchase products in the special store, SLMC said.</p><p>&quot;This is the least we could do for all that you do for our patients,&quot; the statement read.</p><p>&quot;Thank you for your commitment to fight and pursue selfless service amidst the COVID-19 crisis,&quot; it said.</p><p>The Care Store at the Henry Sy, Sr. Auditorium in SLMC, Taguig opened Friday morning, while a similar make-shift grocery for health workers will open in the hospital&#x27;s Quezon City branch on April 7.</p><p>The stores are open daily from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., and from 12 noon to 4 p.m.</p><p>The hospital earlier said that its 2 branches were unable to accept more COVID-19 patients for confinement due to overcapacity.</p><p>&quot;Both hospitals have already exceeded maximum capacity and admitting more COVID-19 patients will seriously impact our ability to deliver the critical level of care and attention patients need at this time,” it said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/24/20/st-lukes-says-unable-to-accept-more-covid-19-patients-for-confinement">St. Luke’s says unable to accept more COVID-19 patients for confinement</a></li></ul><p>The Health sector has called on the government to send aid for health workers who are heavily exposed to the highly-contagious virus, that has infected 2,633 patients in the country.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/31/20/napakasuwerte-ninyo-duterte-honors-doctors-healthcare-workers-who-died-of-covid-19">&#x27;Napakasuwerte ninyo&#x27;: Duterte honors doctors, healthcare workers who died of COVID-19</a></li></ul><div> </div>

<p>Health workers at the St. Lukes Medical Center (SLMC) can now get essential items for free after the hospital opened a special "make-shift store" for them on Friday, as frontliners continue to struggle with the influx of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.</p>

Health workers at the St. Lukes Medical Center (SLMC) can now get essential items for free after the hospital opened a special "make-shift store" for them on Friday, as frontliners continue to struggle with the influx of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.