DPWH builds add’l modular hospital at Lung Center
THE Department of Public Works and Highways has already started construction of the additional modular hospital at the Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City.
DPWH Secretary and Chief Isolation Czar Mark A. Villar said that the pop-up health facility being built by DPWH is part of the government’s efforts to expand capacity of major hospitals providing healthcare service to people infected with COVID-19.
Villar said 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 on vacant space of LCP as additional treatment facility for moderate, severe and critical COVID-19 patients.
Following a site visit with DPWH Bureau of Construction Director and Task Force member Aristarco Doroy, Sadain reported that layout of three out of the five proposed modular hospitals was already established as of April 24.
