Pasig City's health-related response to #beatCOVID

Adversity reveals genius. So an adage says. True enough, the Coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic has brought the Philippines one of the most popular and even well-oved mayor -- Vico Sotto.

Mayor Vico was recognized when he implemented out of the box initiatives to address the issues brought about by COVID-19. Often, he earns the ire of the officials in the national government not because he was wrong but because he is the first, if not among the first, to show that a simple solution actually works. 

In this video, Mayor Vico and Pasig City shares one of the best decisions they made -- transforming the Pasig City Children's Hospital into a COVID-19 facility and beef up the local health system to increase efficiency, reduce risk of contamination between COVID and non-COVID cases, and control, if not reduce the number of positive cases.

Because of its experience, the city government is now panning to operate the hospital as a specialty hospital for infectious diseases -- a facility that will greatly benefit not only the people of Pasig but also the neighboring cities and municipality in the National Capital Region.