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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 25) - A medical group in Negros Oriental is appealing to authorities to place the province under the strictest form of lockdown, saying the healthcare system is buckling due to a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases.
The Negros Oriental Medical Society said in a statement that a shift to an enhanced community quarantine can help bring reprieve to hospitals on the brink of collapse. Give us time to reset, it said in a social media post last weekend. Please do something before healthcare collapses.
Dr. Joven Occeña, the group s president, told CNN Philippines on Tuesday they are recommending at least two to three weeks of hard lockdown. He said virtually all of the major medical facilities in the province have declared full capacity.
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