The Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police vowed to deploy its medical personnel to assist in the country’s healthcare system.
This came after President Rodrigo Duterte directed the police and the military to deploy members of the medical corps amid the increase in COVID-19 infections among health workers.
The AFP said it would deploy five medical teams to augment the health system capability of hospitals in Metro Manila. Two teams will come from the Philippine Army, and one each from the AFP Health Services Command, Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force.
The AFP said each team would be composed of one doctor, one nurse and three aid men.
The military said it would be the Inter-Agency Task Force for COVID-19 that will determine which medical facilities in the metro will be augmented by the AFP’s medical contingent.
For the part of the police, PNP chief Police General Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar already committed the organization’s Medical Reserve Force “for augmentation to both public and private medical facilities amid reports of full capacity in hospitals and shortage of medical personnel.”
He said the PNP would also conduct an accounting of its personnel with medical background in order to augment the PNP’s MRF.
Eleazar said it is not the first time that the MRF of the organization was tapped as its personnel have already assisted in quarantine facilities and even in the vaccination rollout of the government.—AOL, GMA News
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