A woman employee assigned at the Provincial Treasurer’s Office at the Capitol in Bacolod City died of COVID Oct. 10.
Provincial Administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, said that the newly-promoted employee was in her late 40’s. She was assigned as cashier at the Valeriano Gatuslao District Hospital in Himamaylan City last year, before her assignment at Capitol.
She was undergoing treatment at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital as a referral patient from the Cadiz District Hospital. She was waiting for her scheduled dialysis and the province even decided to shoulder part of her needed cartridges for dialysis but she died Sunday morning, Diaz said, adding that she had other complications because of her high blood sugar level and weight.
The Capitol has expressed its condolences to her family.
Meanwhile, Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, is back to work after he completed his isolation period when he tested positive for COVID two weeks ago.
Tumimbang is helping facilitate the ongoing rapid antigen testing and expanded contact tracing in various local government units of Negros Occidental.
Diaz added that only a few medical personnel, composed of a medical technologist and nurses working in government hospitals, who tested positive and are quarantined at the Mambukal Resort, have symptoms.
For other employees of the provincial government also under isolation, only a few have severe symptoms, while some of them have recovered, he added. — MML
