The Makati City government has distributed home health care packages to 12,138 residents with COVID-19 symptoms.
Mayor Abigail Binay said the initiative started in August last year so that city residents who have tested positive can monitor and care for themselves even when they are quarantined at home.
“We ensure that our residents who have tested positive have the right equipment that can help them monitor themselves at home, especially with the highly contagious Omicron variant now in our midst. We want to be able to boost their recovery in the comfort of their homes,” she said.
Each COVID-19 home care kit contains 20 tablets of Biogesic, 30 capsules of Ascorbic Acid, Bactidol, Kamilo San spray, Betadine throat spray, Green Cross 500ml Alcohol, Kool Fever, 1 box of face mask, a pulse oximeter, and an infrared thermometer
“We also ensure that these home care kits are delivered right at their doorstep by assigned MAC personnel and we also provide food packages to the individuals that are home quarantined upon their request,” Binay said.
The city chief executive also reported that personnel from the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) are calling up residents who test positive so they can be pr filed and instructed on the next steps of their quarantine.
Aside from the COVID-19 home care kit, the city government has continuously combatted the spread of the virus through rigorous identification and isolation of positive individuals, and contact tracing of the close contacts of those who tested positive.
The Makati CESU has provided free community swabbing to residents who show symptoms of COVID-19.
Meanwhile, Binay reminded all Makatizens not to be complacent and vigilantly monitor themselves when they show symptoms. They may call CESU hotlines 0917-8446997, 09178121229, 09178446904, 8870-1442, 8870-1444, 8870-1447 and 8870-1449.