Dozens of sick people were desperate enough to walk through flooded streets of Pasig City to reach a flooded hospital and seek medical attention.

Dr. Nadia Irene Sarmiento, head doctor at the Pasig General Hospital, said dozens of residents have been trooping to the hospital to seek medical attention, but all they could provide the patients with were dextrose.

The hospital's management said a large part of the medical facility was still flooded. Its laboratory and several equipments have become useless after being drenched by floodwaters.

Sarmiento said majority of the patients were afflicted with "second wave" diseases that normally spread in flooded areas, such as leptospirosis and pneumonia.

"We have no choice but to transfer them," she said. She advised residents with more serious diseases to go to more capable hospitals located the city.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque, who learned of the hospital's situation only on Thursday through ABS-CBN's Umagang Kay Ganda, said he will see what he could do to improve the medical facility's situation.

Duque said he will also send a medical team to augment health workers at the Pasig General Hospital. He said there are also 20 medical teams deployed in evacuation centers in calamity-stricken areas around Metro Manila.

Meanwhile, the health secretary assured that the government has enough supply of medicines that are distributed to evacuation centers every day.

He made the assurance amid reports that children in evacuation centers are beginning to get ill.

He said that aside from medicines, the agency has also distributed 100 portable toilets to accommodate more than 600,000 people housed in at least 700 evacuation centers in flood-hit areas. With a report from Gretchen Malalad, ABS-CBN News