Manila Mayor Isko Moreno
Barring hitches, we in the city of Manila are looking forward to having a hospital that will cater exclusively to COVID-19 patients suffering from mild to moderate symptoms, two months from now.
I and Vice Mayor Honey Lacuna, after a 72-hour brainstorming with concerned heads of offices, departments and bureaus in the city along with authorities from the Philippine General Hospital, decided to go ahead with our plan to declog the six city-run hospitals with the establishment of this field hospital.
Once done, the COVID bed allocations in our six city-run hospitals will already be made available for those under severe and critical conditions only. These beds will be turned into intensive care units (ICUs) which are badly needed these days.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 21) The city government of Manila on Tuesday broke ground to start the construction of a 336-bed capacity COVID-19 field hospital at Luneta Park.
During the ceremony, Manila Mayor Francisco Isko Moreno Domagoso said this is a way to lessen incidents of deaths of coronavirus patients even before being admitted by hospitals that are fully occupied.
The ₱154-million facility will accommodate mild and moderate patients and is expected to be completed within two months, Moreno said in a statement. Its total capacity may still be expanded by 100 beds when needed, with some 150 medical frontliners monitoring patients in the field hospital, he added.
(Photo from DOT)
“The DOT is gratified and honored to be able to use its parks and public spaces in support of the national pandemic response,” Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Tuesday, April 20.
Puyat made the remarks during the groundbreaking of the temporary Mega Field Hospital facility, which will be erected at the Burnham Green of Rizal Park in Manila City.
The Board of Directors of the National Parks Development Committee (NPDC), an attached agency of the DOT, unanimously approved the proposal of Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso to build the temporary mobile hospital “in anticipation of a possible surge of COVID-19 cases.”
DOT supports the construction of temporary medical facility in a famous Manila tourist site radyonatin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radyonatin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DOT green lights Mayor Isko s proposed temporary mobile hospital at Rizal Park mb.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mb.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.