DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat (Photo from Puyat’s Facebook)
Signing the deal in a virtual ceremony were DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat, National Parks Development Committee (NPDC) Executive Director Cecille Lorenzana-Romero, and Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso.
According to Puyat, the Manila Mega Field Hospital will be constructed at the 16,327-square meter area of the Burnham Green located at the western section of Rizal Park.
The mobile field hospital will augment the bed capacity of hospitals for moderate and severe cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with its default capacity of 336 beds, plus the “capacity to expand should the need arise.”
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno
Barring hitches, we in the city of Manila are looking forward to having a hospital that will cater exclusively to COVID-19 patients suffering from mild to moderate symptoms, two months from now.
I and Vice Mayor Honey Lacuna, after a 72-hour brainstorming with concerned heads of offices, departments and bureaus in the city along with authorities from the Philippine General Hospital, decided to go ahead with our plan to declog the six city-run hospitals with the establishment of this field hospital.
Once done, the COVID bed allocations in our six city-run hospitals will already be made available for those under severe and critical conditions only. These beds will be turned into intensive care units (ICUs) which are badly needed these days.
(Photo from DOT)
“The DOT is gratified and honored to be able to use its parks and public spaces in support of the national pandemic response,” Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Tuesday, April 20.
Puyat made the remarks during the groundbreaking of the temporary Mega Field Hospital facility, which will be erected at the Burnham Green of Rizal Park in Manila City.
The Board of Directors of the National Parks Development Committee (NPDC), an attached agency of the DOT, unanimously approved the proposal of Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso to build the temporary mobile hospital “in anticipation of a possible surge of COVID-19 cases.”
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