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Media blasts Spox Harry Roque for ‘cutting-in line to get a hospital bed at PGH via ‘VIP treatment’

Roque was under fire after a reporter asked him how he managed to get a room at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) over the weekend, even as he only had COVID-19 mild symptoms.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque was in hot water all weekend as he battled with COVID-19 at Metro Manila’s most in-demand hospital for indigent Filipinos.

Roque was under fire after a reporter asked him how he managed to get a room at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) over the weekend, even as he only had COVID-19 mild symptoms.

He would call the question ‘unchristian’ and even flaunted the idea of hospitals having enough space for patients with severe cases of COVID-19.

Also, he said his blood oxygen levels dropped to 90 percent, which prompted a transfer to a medical facility.

It elicited all sorts of responses from both personalities and your average Juan, especially with PGH’s COVID-19 bed capacity already soaring past critical levels.

Reactions from Netizens were along the lines of privilege, seeing as Roque was a Malacañang official.

He also got hit with comments on being fit enough to conduct a press briefing—yet needing to be in a medical facility, to begin with.

Some Netizens just felt fortunate they weren’t in the same vicinity as Roque.

Roque had himself a busy weekend as he tried to get information on whether NCR, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, and Laguna—collectively known as NCR Plus—will remain under an enhanced community quarantine or not.

Roque announced that Duterte has approved placing the entire NCR Plus bubble under a less strict modified enhanced community quarantine.

The Government’s reason for downgrading the quarantine status of NCR Plus, according to Roque, is the increase in the health capacity of COVID-19 centers within the bubble.

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