The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is pushing for more modular hospitals to address the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the country.
Public Works Secretary Mark A. Villar, who also sits as the government’s chief isolation czar, said the agency would construct more off-site hospitals as the number of infections continue to augment the capacity of the health-care industry.
Villar said ground works for additional five cluster units of off-site hospital facility with 110 beds for moderate, severe and critical patients will commence on April 17 with the conduct of construction staking or layout survey of build site.
Specifically for the Lung Center of the Philippines, the DPWH is building “additional pop-up structures” adding to the already built eight two-bed hospital rooms in the facility.
Likewise, the agency has met with the National Center for Mental Health (NCMH) for the construction of 11 cluster units of modular hospital facilities with 242 beds for Covid-19.
DPWH is also proposing to build three cluster units of off-site dormitories with 96 beds as temporary shelter of medical professionals who will provide health-care services at NCMH Mega Modular Off-Site Hospital.
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