By Liezle Basa Inigo
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Available and accessible government buildings are being tapped as isolation facilities to add more Covid-19 facilities in the region even as two Provincial Ligtas Covid-19 centers were simultaneously inaugurated in San Vicente, Burgos, and Tebag East, Sta. Barbara, all in Pangasinan.
Engineer Josefina G. Oamar, DPWH Disaster Risk Reduction
Management focal person said the Dept. of Public Works and Highways Regional
Office 1 converted the Pangasinan Reformation Center and Office of the
Provincial Agriculturist Buildings into Covid-19 isolation facilities in both
towns.
In her report to DPWH
regional director Ronnel M. Tan, the newly-completed Ligtas Covid-19 Center
facility in Burgos town has a 25-bed capacity and one nurse station, while the
one in Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan which is located at the OPAG has a 40-bed
capacity and one nurse station.
Oamar noted that Region
1 has a total of 13 DPWH Regional Evacuation Centers built that have been
converted into quarantine facilities/healthcare facilities.
These are the evacuation
centers in Paoay, Banna, and Batac City in Ilocos Norte; Vigan City, Ilocos
Sur; Bacnotan, Agoo, Government Center, Sevilla, San Fernando City in La Union
dubbed as the Home of Hope, and the evacuation centers in San Nicolas, Dasol,
Alaminos City, Calasiao, Manaoag and Urbiztondo towns.
A total of seven
local government unit buildings were converted into quarantine
facilities/healthcare facilities to accommodate suspected and probable COVID-19
patients.
The DPWH is building and
converting structures to ensure demands are met for healthcare facilities that
will help contain Covid-19 cases.
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