The DPWH is set to establish a COVID-19 hospital at the DOH-operated Mindanao Central Sanitarium Hospital in Zamboanga City to expand the healthcare service capacity in the area.
DPWH Secretary and isolation czar Mark Villar said that he has instructed Undersecretary and DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local/Health Facility Head Emil K. Sadain to identify the site for the modular hospitals.
Sadain said preparatory plans and proposed concept design for the putting up one unit of modular hospital with total of 22 beds for moderate and severe Covid-19 cases, and 16-room dormitory for 32 health workers has been discussed with Dr. Hannah Rojas-Turco, Chief of Hospital II of the Mindanao Central Sanitarium (MCS) Hospital.
Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega and Assistant Secretary Romy Ong earlier recommended to Sadain to check the possibility of constructing a modular hospital made of prefabricated components at MCS Hospital.
DPWH has earlier turned over to Zamboanga City LGU two tents facility with 20 beds equipped with air conditioning units, adequate lighting and ventilation, uninterrupted electricity supply, potable water source, and sewer line for the isolation of positive cases who are asymptomatic to arrest local transmission.
The DPWH is also rushing the conversion of the old Zamboanga Convention Center into an isolation quarantine facility with a total capacity of 180 beds in Pasonanca.
Meanwhile, Zamboanga City has reverted today (May 8) to a stricter restriction level of modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) amid the rising number of cases. – DPWH/AG-jlo-RIR
COVID HOSPITAL TO BE BUILT AT DOH-OPERATED MINDANAO CENTRAL SANITARIUM HOSPITAL IN ZAMBOANGA CITY
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