COTABATO City ― After two weeks inside the isolation room of the Cotabato Regional Medical Center here, a patient who was tested positive of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease has been discharged and sent home by health authorities.
“Our positive case is already discharged, already resolved … and alive,” Dr. Helen Yambao, CRMC chief of hospital, said in an ambush interview.
However, she said, four more patients categorized as Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) are now confined in isolation at the CRMC.
“We have four PUIs, but they are all stable,” she added. Yambao said Patient 145 (PH145) was reunited with his family over the weekend.
The hospital chief refused to further reveal other details of the patient except by happily announcing he has recovered.
PH145 was one of the 215 Filipino Muslim religious leaders who attended a Tabligh gathering in Malaysia from Feb. 27 to March 1 where 16,000 people attended, 1,500 of them foreigners.
One of the 215 religious leaders in the Malaysia gathering died at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center in Marawi City on Tuesday, according to Barmm Member of Parliament Zia Alonto Adiong, spokesperson of the provincial task force on Covid-19 in Lanao del Sur. (mindanews)
