By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is currently constructing another 32 isolation rooms for coronavirus 2019 or Covid-19 patients here.
Last year, DPWH-6 built 32 isolation rooms for Bacolod Covid-19 patients at Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod City.
A press statement from the Mayor’s Office said that the additional project will complete the 64 isolation rooms that Mayor Evelio Leonardia lobbied last year with DPWH Secretary Mark Villar and was favorably endorsed by DPWH Undersecretary Emil Sadain and DPWH Region 6 director Lea Delfinado.
Once completed, the project will have 4 container-type isolation sets.
Each set has 16 rooms furnished with individual air conditioners and comfort rooms, a nurse’s station, a utility room, separate medical staff quarters with comfort rooms for male and female, sanitation area, water tanks, and standby generator.
The 64-room facility cost PHP50-million.
“We are deeply grateful to Secretary Villar, USec. Sadain, and RD Lea Delfinado for listening to our appeal and providing us these facilities to help us fight Covid-19. This will go a long way towards the care of mild to moderate cases and allow our hospitals to admit more of the severe cases that truly need intensive medical attention,” Leonardia said.
“Even if we may have flattened the curve of infections in the past months, there is no telling when a surge of new cases may come again. So, these facilities have to be ready, and we are thankful that the national government, through the DPWH, has provided us these facilities,” Leonardia added. (With a report from PIO)
