MANILA, Philippines — The Makati City government is creating its own system to attend to the medical needs of COVID patients who are currently being treated or isolated at home.
The COVID-19 home care system, which would come with a telemedicine or remote medical consultation service, would enable the city government to monitor the condition of COVID-19 patients in their homes, Mayor Abby Binay said during the “Vax to the Future” online show streamed in The STAR’s Facebook page yesterday.
Makati’s home care kit would include vitamins, an oximeter and other things a home-based COVID patient might need, she added.
The city’s hospitals that admit COVID-19 patients have been slightly decongested, Binay said.
As of Wednesday, the city had a total of 18,719 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 1,367 active cases, 16,775 recoveries and 577 deaths.
Meanwhile, Binay encouraged city residents to sign up for the city government’s COVID-19 vaccination program, noting that most of the 112,000 for vaccination came from Makati’s posh villages.
The city government has inoculated 34,000 health workers, senior citizens and persons with comorbidities.
It has ordered one million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, which may arrive in July, officials said.