Covid-19 has recently hampered operations at the National Center for Mental Health (NCMH). This requires immediate action in reporting, contact tracing and monitoring cases. The CFI immediately helped to develop and deploy a tool to assist the NCMH in tracking the disease among its staff and within their grounds.
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We used two methods to model the disease burden against healthcare capacity in the region (Panay + Guimaras) as well as in the province (Iloilo). Release from a 30-day quarantine may cause a surge in Covid-19 infections which will quickly overwhelm our healthcare capacity. Additional actions and preparations are recommended to augment our effective healthcare capacity in terms of hospital beds and available healthcare workers, alongside enhanced testing, contact tracing, monitoring etc.
Panay and Guimaras COVID-19 Disease Burden Analysis
Iloilo Province COVID-19 Disease Burden Projection
Sample pooling is a method that originated in the 1940s, and used frequently in research. It has been used in other countries to screen their blood supply for HIV, hepatitis and other pathogens. It's application to Covid-19 testing can help alleviate our scarcity of testing reagents and skilled manpower.
Read the PAASE Bulletin.
The University of San Agustin Iloilo Office of Research and Global Relations, the Center for Informatics and the Department of Biology hosted a lecture on COVID-19 by Dr. Mario Antonio L. Jiz II last March 13, 2020. Dr. Jiz highlighted updates on disease epidemiology, surveillance, and diagnosis and discussed preventive measures to help curb the spread of the virus.
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