Doctors and nurses attend to patients as they convert the gym into a ward at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City on Friday, August 9.
Following heavy floods due to enhanced monsoon rains in Metro Manila last July, cases of leptospirosis have ballooned, prompting health authorities to activate emergency procedures. A total of 67 cases of leptospirosis in total are confined at the NKTI, 40 patients of which are housed in the gym converted to ward.
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