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PGH won't take new ER patients amid rising COVID-19 admissions

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Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<p><br/>MANILA— The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) on Tuesday announced suspending acceptance of new patients in its emergency room due to the rising number of COVID-19 admissions in the hospital. </p><p>PGH, the country&#x27;s largest government hospital and COVID-19 referral facility, said they don&#x27;t want to compromise the health service they are providing due to the number of patients they would need to attend to. </p><p>The hospital also had a total of 320 confirmed COVID-19 patients as of Monday. </p><p>&quot;Higit 100 na sa una naming itinakda na 230 na bilang ng COVID-19 patients na naka-admit sa PGH at karamihan sa mga ito ay nangangailangan ng intensive care, high-flow oxygen, at ventilators,&quot; the advisory read. </p><p>(Over 100 of our 230 admitted COVID-19 patients are in need of intensive care, high-flow oxygen, and ventilators)</p><p>&quot;Malalagay lang sa peligro ang kapakanan ng mga pasyente, at pati na rin ang aming mga kawani kung ito ay hahayaan naming madagdagan pa.&quot; </p><p>(If we accept more patients, we will endanger our patients and our staff.)</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">READ: PGH will temporarily not accept ER patients due to the rising number of COVID-19 admissions as well as patients who need intensive care. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/eKKBsLSPu1">pic.twitter.com/eKKBsLSPu1</a></p>— Job Manahan (@jobmanahan) <a href="https://twitter.com/jobmanahan/status/1430054069456932866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>On Monday, PGH said it would strictly only accept &quot;coordinated transfers&quot; to its emergency room due to the same reason. </p><p>ABS-CBN News reached out to PGH Spokesperson Jonas Del Rosario to have more details on the development but he has yet to respond as of this posting.</p><p>PGH also temporarily closed down their non-COVID wards on Aug. 14 to focus on their virus patients. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/15/21/pgh-will-temporarily-not-accept-non-covid-cases">READ: PGH will temporarily not accept non-COVID cases: official</a></li></ul><p>The Philippines has been reporting a record-spike in COVID-19 infections most notably on Monday, when the health department confirmed 18,332 new virus cases — an all-time high. </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=1747902" 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>

The PGH on Tuesday announced suspending acceptance of new patients in its emergency room due to the rising number of COVID-19 admissions in the hospital. 

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PGH won't take new ER patients amid rising COVID-19 admissions

Job Manahan,

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Published Aug 24, 2021 03:53 PM PHT

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