Medic volunteers
THE continued mushrooming of COVID-19 patients in the country, particularly in the so-called “NCR Plus,” has thrust outfront the need to train “medic volunteers.”
The proposed training of “medic volunteers” is most welcome, coming at a time when “NCR Plus” hospitals, public and private, are bothered by lack of medical doctors and nurses.
As chairman of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), Senator Richard “Dick” Gordon knows the importance of “medic volunteers” in the country’s fight against the deadly COVID-19.
The PRC is a premier humanitarian organization that is committed on various social welfare services and promoting volunteerism, according to the senator from Olongapo City.
In fact, the delivery of essential services of the PRC is powered by the committed service of volunteers, who unselfishly devote time, energy and resources in serving humanity.
Aware that “NCR Plus” hospital doctors and nurses are overworked, Gordon, a member of the 1971 Constitutional Convention, called for the training of “medic volunteers.”
Gordon added: “Ang gusto ko nga ay magkaroon tayo ng medic volunteers. Kung mag-train tayo ng mga minder, anuman ang background nila, we can test them para makatulong sila na mag-monitor ng mga pasyente.”
These volunteer healthcare workers, he said, will monitor mild to moderate or recovering COVID-19 patients in hospitals, including PRC’s “COVID-19 Field Hospital” in Quezon City.
The PRC established the field hospital at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP). It is equipped with pulse oximeters, mobile X-ray machines, ECG machines and cardiac monitors.
Gordon, a lawyer, said: “We are going to win this fight if everybody helps out. Kaya dapat habang nagdadagdag tayo ng hospital beds ay nagre-reinforce tayo ng volunteers.”
Employing the services of “medic volunteers” is, without doubt, a move in the right direction.
