Published April 25, 2021, 2:14 PM The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has started building another set of “pop-up” hospitals at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City, the agency said in a statement Sunday, April 25. DPWH secretary and isolation czar Mark A. Villar said that the modular health facilities being built are part of the government’s efforts to expand the capacity of major hospitals to accommodate more people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). According to Villar, five 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 within LCP.