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QUEZON CITY, Apr. 25 The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has already started construction activities for the additional modular hospital at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City.
Secretary and Chief Isolation Czar Mark A. Villar said that the pop-up health facility being built by DPWH is part of the government efforts to expand capacity of major hospitals providing healthcare service to peole infected of Covid-19.
According to Secretary Villar, five (5) units of modular hospitals will be put up by the DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local and National Health Facilities headed by Undersecretary Emil K. Sadain on vacant space of LCP as additional treatment facility for moderate, severe and critical Covid-19 patients.
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Villar said the Quezon Institute at E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue, Quezon City has the facility to cater the need for isolation and treatment of patients who are moderate to critical COVID-19 cases.
“Our DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local and National Healthcare Facilities constructs modular health facilities at Quezon Institute with two units with a total bed capacity of 44 already turned over to the Department of Health (DOH) last December 2020,” he said in a statement.
According to the DPWH, the QI is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities to be operated by medical personnel of Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center.