All 19 barangays of the municipality of Sto. Tomas in Davao del Norte have been equipped with patient care centers for suspected and probable coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, Mayor Ernesto Evangelista said.
“Sto. Tomas town is a topnotcher when it comes to receiving locally stranded individuals (LSIs) and we saw the need to put them in a facility closer to their families,” Evangelista stressed.
“We established these facilities to respond to the influx of LSIs coming into our municipality.”
The mayor said all the town’s patient care centers are currently occupied by LSIs who availed of the “Hatid Tulong” initiative of the national government.
“We established these facilities to respond to the influx of LSIs coming into our municipality, which has exhausted our COVID funds,” he added.
The patient care centers, Evangelista said, are equipped with disinfectants and thermal scanners while the patients receive food supplies from the barangays and the municipal government.
All the town’s patient care centers are currently occupied by LSIs who availed of the “Hatid Tulong” initiative.
He said each care center is guarded to avoid patients from escaping, in response to an incident recently in which three LSIs escaped from one of the town’s quarantine facility.