(Photo via DPWH)
The Department of Public Works and Highways recently completed the construction of the facilities which can accommodate 44 COVID-19 patients and 64 medical personnel manning the operations at the Quezon City Institute.
“The completion of this modular hospital will address the urgent need for medical facilities made inevitable by the pandemic,” Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar said.
Each modular hospital will be operated by medical teams from the Department of Health (DoH) and Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center in Manila.
The facilities were designed by the DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local and National Health Facilities in coordination with DoH to have specific rooms for the donning or putting on of health care professionals’ personal protective equipment (PPE) such as disposable gowns, gloves and shoe covers, and area for doffing or taking off of PPEs in order to protect and limit spread of contamination.