A pop-up hospital intended to accommodate more COVID-19 patients is now under construction at the Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City, the Department of Public Works and Highways said Thursday.
It is a 16-bed modular hospital being put up to “support the demand for health care services of the Lung Center” and “increase the hospital’s health care capacity.”
According to Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar, who also serves as the chief isolation czar in the response against the coronavirus pandemic, the 16-bed mobile hospital will be dedicated for the treatment of severe COVID-19 patients.
The mobile hospital will house eight rooms with two beds each.
Meanwhile, the DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local and National Health Facilities will also build five modular hospitals made of fabricated components within the Quezon Institute compound at E. Rodriguez Avenue in Quezon City.
The field modular hospital with a total capacity of 110 beds will each have a separate nursing station, equipment laboratory, pantry, storage, medical gas line, closed-circuit television system, and elevated pathways connecting clusters.
Each off-site modular hospital facility at the Quezon Institute will be able to accommodate 22 patients with a dedicated room for the donning or putting on of health care professionals’ personal protective equipment.
Two offsite dormitories will be also constructed within Quezon Institute compound as temporary shelter for some 64 health workers who will be manning the hospital operations.