Baguio Nurse COVID19 Patient Also Comes Out To Hasten Tracing Ops

June 3, 2020 JUST IN

BAGUIO CITY (June 3, 2020) – The Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) nurse, the city’s latest Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient, came out in the open to alert people he came in contact with to thwart the virus’ spread here.
John Delinger Batulan, 38, from South Central Aurora Hill and nurse at the BGHMC Psychiatric Ward had asked family, relatives, friends, co-workers and others to cooperate with contact tracers and subject themselves to medical and quarantine protocols.
Batulan said he had no major symptoms but underwent a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) yesterday as a requirement for returning to work at the hospital after a week’s break from duty. He last reported to his post at the BGHMC on May 23.
He told Mayor Benjamin Magalong that he spent most of his off-duty days at home where had meet-up with friends. He also did some drop-and-go errands.
But on May 28, he went on a round trip to La Union to fetch a relative needing medical attention.
Batulan, a cancer survivor in 2016, was immuno-compromised but continued to serve as a frontliner.
Artemio Dumlao