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COVID ward at St. Luke's BGC branch hits full capacity on first day of ECQ

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<p>MANILA - St. Luke’s Medical Center on Friday said one of their branches have reached its full capacity for COVID-19 patients on Friday, the first day of the implementation of the strictest lockdown levels in Metro Manila.</p><p>Medical chief officer Dr. Benjamin Campomanes said the Bonifacio Global City branch’s COVID ward is now at a 100 percent full capacity.</p><p>“Surprisingly, at the start of ECQ we hit a hundred percent occupancy at Bonifacio Global City. On the first day of ECQ biglang 100 percent occupancy in our COVID ward,” said Campomanes.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/05/21/covid-19-striking-younger-patients-unvaccinated">COVID-19 striking younger patients, unvaccinated: St. Luke’s official</a></li></ul><p>In an interview on TeleRadyo, Campomanes said there are now about 10 to 13 COVID-19 patients are at the emergency room waiting to be admitted.</p><p>“So it would depend on how fast the people in the COVID wards will get discharge in just ordinary quarantine,” he said.</p><p>Their intensive care units, he said, is still OK at 15 out of 24 beds occupied.</p><p>The COVID ward in their Quezon City branch is doing a little better, except for its ICU which now only has 1 available bed.</p><p>“Out of the 98 beds that are available for COVID, we have 61 and in the ICU 13 out of 14 beds, only 1 is available in Quezon City,” he said.</p><p>Campomanes said their facilities treat moderate, severe and critical patients only. </p><p>But many of those admitted at their hospitals are couples, family members, young patients belonging to the 30 to 50 age group, unvaccinated or those who only received 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.</p><p>“Why are they unvaccinated? Because they are not included in the priority group kaya mas younger ang naa-admit (that’s why those admitted are young). That’s the changing profile of the disease. Yun lang ang objectively what we are finding now,” he said.</p><p>Meanwhile, Campomanes assured the public that all their ancillary procedures are still open for non-COVID patients.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1742306" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><div> </div>

MANILA - St. Luke’s Medical Center on Friday said one of their branches have reached its full capacity for COVID-19 patients on Friday, the first day of the implementation of the strictest lockdown levels in Metro Manila.