Olongapo hospital doctor infected with coronavirus from patient
OLONGAPO CITY—The practice of medicine at a time of pandemic is proving to be high risk as can be gleaned from the case of a doctor at a hospital here who became positive for SARS Cov2, the virus that causes COVID-19, after he was exposed to an infected patient.
The doctor is a resident obstetrician-gynecologist at the James L. Gordon Memorial Hospital (JLGMH).
JLGMH officials said the doctor contracted the virus from a patient.
The doctor became the first JLGMH staffer who got infected with coronavirus after 50 other health care workers were placed on quarantine when they were exposed to a COVID-19 patient.
The infection forced the hospital management to shut its surgery and medicine wards, dialysis section, delivery room and neonatal intensive care unit for disinfection.
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