Free hospitalization offered to indigent dengue patients
ROXAS CITY – Capiz Gov. Victor Tanco Sr. has directed all government hospitals to provide free hospitalization for indigent dengue patients.
“As long as we have funds for it, indigent patients get free hospitalization,” Tanco said in a radio interview.
The free services include doctors, room, medicines and laboratory tests.
Patients should show their certificate of indigency from Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office to prove that they are indigents, Tanco said.
Earlier, the provincial government turned over some 100 beds and mosquito nets to Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital and all district hospitals in Capiz.
Capiz province was placed a under the state of calamity to enable it to use its calamity fund to help dengue patients and contain the dengue cases.
Mayor Angel Alan Celino has also declared a dengue outbreak in Roxas City.
In Capiz, 13 patients have already died of dengue, including a two- month-old baby boy from Pilar town.
Roxas City still has the highest cases, with five deaths and 606 patients.
It is followed by Dao, 160; Pontevedra, 122; Panay, 117; President Roxas, 102; Cuartero, 75; Dumalag, 94; Dumarao, 42; Jamindan, 43; Maayon, 79; Mambusao, 65; Panitan, 91; Sigma, 56; Tapaz, 22; Pilar, 95; and Sapian, 17.
Among hospitals, Capiz Emmanuel Hospital has the highest dengue admission at 680, followed by Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital, 415; St. Anthony College Hospital, 286; Dao District Hospital, 153; Bailan District Hospital, 147; and Capiz Doctors’ Hospital, 79.*
