A hospital employee pushes a wheelchair at the emergency room at Jamaica Hospital in New York, Monday, March 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The Ministry of Health and Wellness ( MOHW) says effective immediately, public hospitals islandwide will be restricted to conducting emergency care services only. This comes as the public health facilities register continued increases in confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 infections that required hospitalization.
Up to Thursday, August 26, a record of seven hundred and thirty-nine (739) positive COVID-19 patients were accounted for in the hospital, of which one hundred and eighty-nine (189) were moderately ill, 92 severely ill, and 61 critically ill. There were another 320 patients suspected to have COVID-19 under hospital care.
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