St. Luke’s Medical Center and Makati Medical Center (MMC) have already reached their full capacity of allocated intensive care unit (ICU) beds for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.
The country’s top association of medical practitioners on Thursday backed Makati Medical Center’s condemnation of Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III’s breach of hospital protocol and told other politicians to stop acting like VIPs during a pandemic.
Senator Pimentel, even when he was a person under investigation, was supposed to have stayed at home and under strict quarantine, and should have maintained physical distance from his pregnant wife.