Published April 18, 2021, 9:41 AM
The Rizal Provincial Hospital System (RPHS) has temporarily closed its operating room (OR) and delivery room (DR) after several of its staff tested positive for COVID-19.
In a Facebook post on Friday (April 16), Mayor Andrea Baustista Ynares announced that the OR and DR of the RPHS – Antipolo Annex I in Barangay Dela Paz will be closed until Tuesday (April 20) for disinfection measures.
The mayor assured that the rooms will undergo disinfection and that medical staff and their close contacts will be tracked by the city’s contact tracing team.
For emergency cases, Ynares advised the public to go to the other three public hospitals in the city namely the RPHS-Annex 2 in Barangay Dalig; the Antipolo City Hospital System 3 in Cabading; and the Antipolo City Hospital System-Annex 4 in Barangay Mambugan.
(Jun-Andeng Ynares / MANILA BULLETIN)
The vaccination will be held until Wednesday (March 17) at the Antipolo City Hospital System (ACHS) Annex IV in Barangay Mambugan.
Rely Bernardo, Antipolo City information officer, said the COVID jabs which recently arrived in the city were part of the donated vaccines from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVAX Facility.
The city government started its inoculation program last March 4.
City Mayor Andrea Ynares urged Antipolo residents to register for vaccination online at bit.ly/antipolobantaycovid19.
Ynares said the inoculation of the medical frontliners from the private hospitals, clinics, and laboratories, and the senior citizens in the city will follow as soon as the vaccines that were ordered by the local government arrive.