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Duterte warns hospitals that refuse COVID-19 patients will be prosecuted
President Rodrigo Duterte issued a stern warning to hospitals that they would face charges if they refuse to accept patients, including those carrying the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
In a televised address late Monday, Duterte said that officials of government hospitals will face dismissal or suspension if proven that they reject any patient.
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He ordered government hospitals to provide a makeshift room to attend to the sick.
“Lahat ng magkasakit – heart attack, appendicitis, pumutok ang utak – especially government hospital, my order is must accept admission. You fail on that, I will relieve all of you in the hospital and you consider yourselves suspended because the written order will follow,” he said.
Duterte said reports reached him about a patient from the province who died after being refused admission by six hospitals. —LDF, GMA News