The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed the construction of a 151-bed capacity healthcare facility in Carmona, Cavite.
Public Works Secretary Mark Villar said the repurposed evacuation center at Brgy. Lantic, Carmona, Cavite into a “mega-isolation” facility will aid treatment and care of COVID-19 patients from Carmona and other parts of the industrial zone of Calabarzon.
Villar, the government’s chief isolation czar, said the project was supervised by the DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of National and Local Health Facilities, which was created to address the need for health system facilities to decongest hospitals as part of the government’s efforts in battling the coronavirus pandemic.
Undersecretary Emil K. Sadain, head of the DPWH Task Force, headed the turnover of the facility to Carmona Mayor Roy M. Loyola.
Sadain said the repurposing of the Carmona health facility was completed in 20 days.
The DPWH is also closely monitoring the conversion of the 3,000 square meter multi-purpose building into a makeshift hospital in Cavite.
Sadain said the DPWH is constructing 602 COVID-19 facilities with 23,000 bed capacity nationwide, of which 340 are already completed and 262 will be finished towards the end of October.