Capitol reviews procurement procedure after depot infection

By Dolly Yasa

 

BACOLOD City – Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said the provincial government of Negros Occident is reviewing its Standard Operating Procedure in accepting shipments of supplies from the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) in Manila after several employees of the Capitol’s Procurement Services Depot tested positive for COVID-19.

Diaz said he suspects that the supplies from DBM-Manila may have been contaminated with the virus.

He also said that they will start sanitizing the supplies from PS-DBM before distribution to the offices of the provincial government.

Diaz said that the 10 infected depot employees and nine others from the Capitol are quarantined at the Mambukal Mountain Resort in Murcia.

The Procurement Depot has been disinfected, and contact tracing is ongoing.

“I hope that this is the beginning of a trend that infection will no longer spread at the Capitol workplace,” Diaz lamented.

Diaz reiterated his advice for employees who are not feeling well not to report for work until they have received health clearance.

The province’s COVID-19 cumulative report From March 27, 2020 to May 10, 2021 showed 2,367 active cases, 297 deaths, and 10,499 recoveries.

For May 10 alone the province still has the most number of new cases in the region at 250.