PASIG CITY, Oct. 1 (PIA) -- The chief isolation czar, Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark A. Villar said that a 16-bed capacity modular hospital is being put up by the DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local and National Health Facilities to support the demand for health care services of the Lung Center.
In a statement, Villar said the Lung Center management will use the on-going mobile hospital for for the treatment of severe COVID-19 patients.
Five (5) modular hospitals made of fabricated components will also be constructed by the DPWH Task Force within Quezon Institute compound at E. Rodriguez Avenue, Quezon City.
The field modular hospital with total capacity of 110 beds will also have separate nursing station, equipment laboratory, pantry, storage, medical gas line, cctv system, and elavated pathway connecting clusters.
Each off-site modular hospital facility at Quezon Institute will be able to accomodate 22 patients with dedicated room for the donning or putting on of health care professionals’s personal protective equipment (PPE) such as disposable gowns, gloves and shoe covers and area for doffing or taking off of PPEs.
Two (2) offsite dormitories will be also constructed within Quezon Institute compound as temporary shelter for some 64 health workers who will be manning the hospital operations.
Villar said the DPWH Task Force is working non- stop in coming up with more viable solutions to shore up the health care system grappling with an unprecedented crisis to wipe out the pandemic. (DPWH/PIA-NCR)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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