DPWH eyes up to 4,000 more beds in COVID-19 isolation facilities by May

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Isolation czar Mark Villar assures that the government is doing its best to ramp up the country’s bed capacity. He says they are already in advance stages for the setting up of additional facilities like modular hospitals.

almost 3,000-4,000… by next month,” isolation czar Mark Villar said during the Laging Handa briefing.

The current number of COVID-19 isolation beds across the country is equivalent to over 600 quarantine facilities built, while the 26,000 beds target is equal to a total of 720 isolation facilities, the DPWH said. In the briefing, he noted that most of the additional beds will be in the National Capital Region, the Philippines' COVID-19 epicenter, which has an occupancy rate of 75%.

During the launch ceremony, Villar said that additional rooms will be opened in the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, also located in Quezon City. COVID-19 beds in the Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City are also set to be increased, according to Senator Bong Go, who also spoke at the event.

 

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Wow thank you sec. Mark dpwh need ntub tlaga ngayon yn

Wow thank you sec. Mark at dpwh npaka laking tulong yn ngayon

Ngayon lang?

advance stage? you're too late! nagkakamatayan na nga dahil walang hospital rooms

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