The Philippine General Hospital, a designated COVID-19 referral center, shares its strategies to conserve Protective Personal Equipment (PPEs). COVID19PH Read here.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic early this year, the Philippine General Hospital has received and continues to receive donations of various kinds.
The cost of providing adequate PPE for healthcare workers also needs to be considered. The Department of Health recently procured. Using these figures, the total cost of PPE for just one patient will be about P300,000. Even if the cost were halved, the amount is still staggering. In PGH, we have designated 4 COVID wards to safely accommodate 22 COVID+ patients each, maintaining a reasonable distance of 2 meters between beds of intubated patients and one meter between beds of non-intubated patients. We currently have 4 such big cohort wards, which can accommodate up to 88 COVID patients altogether.
ZONING. Infographics clearly identify zones within COVID-19 areas and the level of PPE protection required inside PGH. Courtesy of Philippine General HospitalTo perform its role as a COVID-19 referral center, PGH completely overhauled its human resource allocation. We don’t work by departments anymore. The COVID areas are staffed by physicians and nurses from the entire hospital, unified by a centralized mechanism under the lead of pulmonologists and infectious disease specialists.
Safety officers – volunteer doctors and staff from different departments – are present to guide and assist healthcare workers whenever they don their PPE just before entering a COVID zone, and once more, when they doff, after leaving the COVID ward or ICU. Once daily, the safety officers of all units accomplish a Google form to keep track of PPE usage and request for replenishment from the hospital’s supply division.
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