The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Monday said it has deployed eight nurses to the Lung Center of the Philippines to augment its healthcare workforce attending to patients with COVID-19.
In a statement, the AFP said a send-off ceremony, led by its Surgeon General Colonel Fatima Claire Navarro, was held for the Nurse Corps Officers at the Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City.
“We are all equally affected by the impact of the pandemic but in situations when our fellow healthcare workers are feeling low, a friend or even a stranger who will extend sincere help expecting nothing in return, may be the beacon of hope,” Navarro said.
“We cannot eliminate infectious diseases or pandemics but we can be the helping hand while awaiting our return to new normal after each event,” she added.
Two teams from the AFP Nurse Corps will undergo one month of deployment in accordance to the Memorandum of Agreement entered upon by the AFP and the Department of Health.
The first is an all-reservists team composed of 2nd Lieutenant Federico Muyco, 2LT Joey Cabaluna and 2LT Laviña Augusto.
The second team is composed of 1st Lieutenant Fernando Velarde, 2LT Raul Ramos, 2LT Abner Andamon, P2LT Chrissen Valmonte, and P2LT Leslie Ann Muñez.
The AFP said four of the nurses were previously deployed to Davao while two came from Cebu and two others from the V. Luna Medical Center.
All of the Nurse Corps Officers had tested negative of COVID-19 prior to their deployment and will undergo the same RT-PCR testing every two weeks for monitoring, it added.
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