LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 6 (PIA)– The Enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) is extended in the entire municipality of Lagawe and four barangays of Tinoc municipality following the approval of the chairperson of the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) on May 5.
Governor Jerry Dalipog had endorsed to the RIATF the requests of Lagawe Mayor Martin Habawel, Jr. to extend ECQ in the capital town and Tinoc Mayor Samson Benito for the barangays of Ap-apid, Dango, Gumhang and Luhong as a preventive measure to control the movement of people and prevent possible local transmission.
The municipal administrator of Lagawe explained that the town is the center of commerce and governance, hence people flock here during the day for various transactions. Extension of the ECQ will enable the LGU to implement the necessary measures and protocols.
Lamut is the first town of the province to ask for ECQ extension due to the presence of a confirmed case at Poblacion East and contact tracing is still ongoing and swab testing on all who may have been in contact with the patient has not yet completed.
The province of Ifugao is among those that are put under General Community Quarantine effective May 1, 2020.
Meanwhile, Dr. Joseph G. Bulayungan, chief of the Ifugao District Hospital in Lagawe issued an advisory today that the hospital will not attend temporarily to emergency cases and out patients to give way for the decontamination of the facility due to exposure to a Covid-19 probable case.
He reported, “At 6 o’clock this morning, an adult male patient was attended to at the emergency room. Patient was also scheduled for referral to Panopdopan Distric Hospital (PDH.) After being attended to, one of the patient’s companions finally informed one of the staff that the patient actually had a “positive” rapid diagnostic test result and had also a throat swab sample taken (still waiting for the result.)”
Bulayungan reiterated the appeal to clients to be truthful about their travel or exposure and Covid- 19 test/s history or information.
Medical services are unnecessarily hampered when the above situation happens, he stressed.**JDP/MBL-PIA CAR, Ifugao
