The Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center Task Force (EOC- TF) has issued a new memorandum requiring persons who need to secure medical certificates in order to be issued a “Travel Authority” to register in the Bacolod Contact Tracing (BaCTrac) System starting today, October 26.
This new health protocol was recommended by the EOC-TF, the central body in Bacolod that collects and harmonizes relevant data that are transformed into policies against COVID-19.
In line with this, City Health Office (CHO) officer-in-charge Dr. Edwin Miraflor Jr. issued Memo Order No. 102320-01 discouraging chest X-ray as a pre-requisite for the medical certificate and instead focus on the travel and exposure history of the requesting individual, which BaCTrac would help establish.
Miraflor said that a health declaration and an evaluation of an attending CHO medical officer in Bacolod would suffice for the issuance of the medical certificate.
All other requirements for travel would be dependent on the receiving local government unit, he added.
“We cannot burden Bacolodnons with the cost of X-ray, Rapid Test, or Swab Test,” the CHO official stressed.
Chest X-ray may only be required in special cases that an attending CHO physician may see fit, Miraflor added.
