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    The document reflects on issues with COVID-19 testing and results in the Philippines. It argues that while the DOH claimed there were enough testing resources, backlogs led to delayed results and faster virus spread. It asserts mass testing should have occurred earlier rather than waiting for symptoms. A lack of healthcare workers to process tests meant results were slow, as many workers left for higher paying jobs abroad. Better preparation, decisive action, earlier mass testing, and addressing healthcare staffing could have improved the country's pandemic response.

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    The document reflects on issues with COVID-19 testing and results in the Philippines. It argues that while the DOH claimed there were enough testing resources, backlogs led to delayed results and faster virus spread. It asserts mass testing should have occurred earlier rather than waiting for symptoms. A lack of healthcare workers to process tests meant results were slow, as many workers left for higher paying jobs abroad. Better preparation, decisive action, earlier mass testing, and addressing healthcare staffing could have improved the country's pandemic response.

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    The document reflects on issues with COVID-19 testing and results in the Philippines. It argues that while the DOH claimed there were enough testing resources, backlogs led to delayed results and faster virus spread. It asserts mass testing should have occurred earlier rather than waiting for symptoms. A lack of healthcare workers to process tests meant results were slow, as many workers left for higher paying jobs abroad. Better preparation, decisive action, earlier mass testing, and addressing healthcare staffing could have improved the country's pandemic response.

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    The document reflects on issues with COVID-19 testing and results in the Philippines. It argues that while the DOH claimed there were enough testing resources, backlogs led to delayed results and faster virus spread. It asserts mass testing should have occurred earlier rather than waiting for symptoms. A lack of healthcare workers to process tests meant results were slow, as many workers left for higher paying jobs abroad. Better preparation, decisive action, earlier mass testing, and addressing healthcare staffing could have improved the country's pandemic response.

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    Reflection on a Critical Event in the Timeline of CoViD-19 in the Philippines

    For the past two or more years, our country is on a state of pandemic due to COVID-19. Our
    word changes dramatically, people need to live a different life and must adopt to it to survive. The
    Philippine government do every necessary thing to ensure the safety and survival the citizen by issuing
    warning and preventive methods to COVID-19, but it can’t be denied that they also have done or didn’t
    do things that can or can’t help. Our government lack of capabilities to test for possible COVID-19
    infected due to limited resources even though they say that the government, or the DOH specifically, that
    we have enough resources for testing of COVID-19. Due to this, the government related institution that
    prevent the spread of the virus can’t act fast making the spread of the virus fast and too late to detect. In
    this article I will talk about why the DOH say that they have enough resource for testing but still have the
    test results came out late, why that instead of having guidelines on who and who don’t need to be tested it
    should be that all must be tested, and the government hospital and private should have enough staff for
    the testing make faster.

    The DOH spokesperson Maria Rosario said that the country or government have enough
    resources for the testing and having its result came out. But during the early pandemic, backlogs of testing
    and test result have piled up leaving our country more vulnerable to faster rate of infection of COVID-19.
    The government or the IATF should have made preparation for this kind of problem as they are the one
    responsible of it especially the IATF as it is this agency’s job to prevent emerging infectious diseases in
    our country. They should have enough manpower and materials to do its job effectively and prepared.
    Because of this, people died even before confirming that they have COVID-19 or people infecting others
    because they can’t know if already have the virus.

    It also should be noted that the DOH that the spokesperson also said that the country don’t need
    mass testing. I believe that we need to have mass testing and not when the people already show sign of
    infection of virus. Due to this, the virus spread easily even if the people have followed protocols like
    distancing and wearing mask and face shield. We should have mass testing from the start so to know early
    who have the virus and be able to separate them from those that have been confirmed not infected. It may
    be seen like a discrimination to those that have the virus, but it must be done as it concerns national
    security and the health safety of the citizen of the country. Of course, discrimination to those that have the
    virus must be not allowed, instead we or the government must help them immediately.

    The Philippines is known to have supply many countries of health workers like nurses, med-tech,
    doctors, or any related health job, but in the time of the pandemic our country suffers the lack of health
    workers especially to the one that test covid-19. Because of this the test results came late, and the virus
    spread fast and too late to response when confirmed. Our country, the government and private hospitals
    and testing facilities for viruses should have or be able to have the test came faster. Just like what the
    DOH spokesperson have that that the country has enough resources like testing materials for viruses but
    still the test results came out late as there is not enough health workers to process those tests. This is
    because many of our health workers especially those with experiences choose to work on another country
    where the salaries of health workers are much higher than ours, this resulted on lack of health staff to
    properly respond to the pandemic. Many of those that have stayed in our country are scared to be infected
    but their salaries are not worth of the risk.

    Our country should have fared better if the government have made decisions decisively and
    prepared for such pandemic, the country should have done a mass testing immediately from the start of
    pandemic even if the patients are showing or not showing signs of infection so to separate the infected
    faster as we have the resources needed just like what the DOH spokesperson have said. Are heath workers
    should have their salaries also increased whether in public or private hospitals where the government can
    subsidies the private hospitals for the increase of salaries on the health workers as our health workers are
    leaving the country to work on high paying country. Lastly, the government should really be prepared for
    possible next pandemic, maybe start on having a reliable working health system and educate the people
    on the importance of health.

    Reference/s:
    Dante, E. (2020, April 11). Discrimination and social stigma perturbing frontliners and COVID-19

    patients in the Philippines. SHAPE-SEA. https://shapesea.com/op-ed/covid-19/discrimination-

    and-social-stigma-perturbing-frontliners-and-covid-19-patients-in-the-philippines/

    DOH admits backlog, but assures PH ready for mass coronavirus testing should need arise. (n.d.).

    cnn. https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/3/20/doh-coronavirus-testing-backlog.html

    DOH wants health workers' Magna Carta amended; salary standardization to aid private HCWs. (n.d.).

    cnn. https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2022/9/16/health-workers-Magna-Carta-amended-

    salary-standardization.html

    ‘We are not the virus’: Stigmatization and discrimination against frontline health workers. (2021,

    February 26). OUP Academic. https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/43/2/e327/6151704

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