Pampanga Police discovered a secret hospital allegedly operating illegally and accepting Chinese nationals who have been reportedly infected with coronavirus disease or COVID-19 that became pandemic.

According to the source, a former leisure villa in Pampanga turned to be a secret hospital for Chinese nationals who got infected with coronavirus. The villa who became a secret hospital is having seven-bed capacity and has its own drugstore with all the medicines used for operation coming from China. Report said, there was no approve permit from the Food and Drug Administration with all the medicines used in the operation.

Authorities discovered to this underground hospital that operating secretly and found waste medical paraphernalia that include used syringes, IV tubes and medical bottles put into open plastic containers without proper keeping or safety disposal to avoid the spread of possible virus.

Similar report published by the GMA News, stating that the makeshift COVID-19 hospital is operating without permit from the Department of Health (DOH) and Inter-Agency task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

According to Deputy Director for Administration of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Police Brigadier General Rhoderick Armamento, the operation and the illegal treatment is very hazardous to the patients and to the surrounding community.

From that secret hospital, a Chinese patient was taken and transferred to the real hospital by the authorities.

Armamento said they’re tracing some other patients who have history record confined to the said illegal hospital as they suspected patients possibly infected with the coronavirus to avoid infecting other people.

Law enforcement officials have arrested fake hospital administrators and pharmacists. They’re now facing charges for violating the Food and Drug Administration Act of 2009 and the Medical Act of 1958.