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3 modular facilities for Covid patients launched at Batangas Medical Center

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Three modular treatment facilities for the treatment and management of Covid patients at the Batangas Medical Center (BatMC) in Batangas City were opened to cope with the surge of patients and increased need for medical services amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The Department of Health [DOH] extends its utmost gratitude for the DPWH’s support and assistance in providing facilities to augment our hospital’s need for additional rooms for health-care service for Covid patients for the province of Batangas,” Health Assistant Secretary Maria Francia M. Laxamana said as the officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the DOH formally opened the three modular treatment facilities for the treatment and management on April 30.

DPWH Batangas Second District Engineer Sonia D. Paglicauan said that the agency is currently expanding the capacity of major hospitals through the construction of modular facilities to provide more rooms for treatment and management of people infected with Covid-19.

She added that the off-site modular facilities at the BatMC was made possible through the DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local/National Health Facilities together with Batangas Second District Engineering Office.

Paglicauan said that the DPWH has already completed various modular hospitals for Covid-19 treatment in various DOH specialty and retained hospitals, including one ICU type with 16-bed capacity at Lung Center of the Philippines; four typical designed and one ICU type modular hospital at Quezon Institute-Philippine Tuberculosis Society Inc (QI-PTSI), Quezon City with a total of 110-bed capacity; one  typical designed modular hospital with 22-bed capacity at Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital and Sanitarium (DJNRMHS), Caloocan City and one  typical designed with 21 beds and a 10 bed capacity one ICU type modular hospital at Batangas Medical Center, Batangas City.

As of May 1, the DOH said that for isolation beds 1,964 (60.2 percent) are occupied in Calabarzon, 1,167 (67.5 percent) for ward beds,  248 (72.2 percent) intensive care unit beds, and 327 (41.0) mechanical ventilators.

DOH-Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas Rizal Quezon), Assistant Secretary Paula Paz M. Sydiongco, for her part, thanked the DPWH for the completion of the project.

“This will greatly benefit the hospital as sit will increase its bed-capacity with an additional 10 rooms for intensive care units and 21 rooms for isolation and monitoring of mild Covid symptoms,” Sydiongco said.

The facility, she said, will be under the supervision and management of BatMC.

“The DOH central office has already provided the necessary medical equipment for the facility. For the part of the regional office, we will provide augmentation, especially human resource including doctors and nurses and other staff,” she emphasized.

BatMC Chief Ramoncito C. Magnaye also extended his grateful appreciation to DPWH for increasing the capacity of the hospital by building off-site health care facilities for treating Covid-19 patients.

“The Covid-19 modular facilities at BatMC will help accommodate possible surge of Covid cases in the province including patients from adjacent provinces of Laguna, Cavite and Quezon,” he said.

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