Central Luzon hospital stops accepting walk-in patients amid virus surge
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MABALACAT CITY, Pampanga — The government-owned Jose B. Lingad Memorial General Hospital (JBLMGH) in the City of San Fernando will no longer accept walk-in patients due to its rising number of COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms, the management announced Tuesday, August 10.
In its post on Facebook, the JBLMGH asked for the public’s understanding.
The management said the JBLMGH is a tertiary level hospital that needs to take care of COVID-19 patients with severe and critical symptoms.
It advised COVID-19 patients with mild and moderate symptoms to go to primary and secondary level hospitals.
Higher-level means greater capacity to treat patients and more and better medical facilities.
Article continues after this advertisementOn Monday, the JBLMGH closed its outpatient department due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
The management did not say how many COVID-19 patients are being treated in the regional hospital.
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