{"id":251077,"date":"2020-04-03T06:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251077"},"modified":"2020-04-03T06:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:28:58","slug":"picc-forum-halls-to-be-converted-into-health-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/03\/picc-forum-halls-to-be-converted-into-health-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"PICC Forum Halls to be converted into health facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_250867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250867\" style=\"width: 3648px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PICC_CCP_Complex_Pasay2019-03-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250867\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PICC_CCP_Complex_Pasay2019-03-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3648\" height=\"2736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PICC_CCP_Complex_Pasay2019-03-14.jpg 3648w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PICC_CCP_Complex_Pasay2019-03-14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PICC_CCP_Complex_Pasay2019-03-14-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PICC_CCP_Complex_Pasay2019-03-14-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3648px) 100vw, 3648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The immediate conversion of PICC Forum Halls to an improvised health facility will significantly provide an optimal isolation space for monitoring of people infected by Covid-19 as most health facilities in Metro Manila have or are nearing maximum capacity. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=60784546\">photo by patrickroque01\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Villar Group is working with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and EEI for the conversion of the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Forum Halls 1 to 3 into a much-needed facility for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) patients in 10 days\u2019 time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In support of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s call to combine efforts in fighting Covid-19 as one nation, they are working together to complete the redesigning and transformation of Forum Halls into Covid-19 facility geared also for the health monitoring of patients under monitoring (PUMs) and persons under investigation (PUIs).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The immediate conversion of PICC Forum Halls to an improvised health facility will significantly provide an optimal isolation space for monitoring of people infected by Covid-19 as most health facilities in Metro Manila have or are nearing maximum capacity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PICC Forum Halls is a multi-purpose venue with a usable area of about 4,000 square meters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Once converted, it is estimated to cater to the treatment of about 630 Covid-19 patients.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIn these challenging times, I would like to give you the firm assurance of our companies\u2019 commitment to extend help in whichever way we can and converting PICC to a health facility in the fastest time we can is just one of them,\u201d Manny Villar, chairman of the Villar Group of Companies, said in a statement Friday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Once completed, the operation of PICC\u2019s temporary health facility for treatment and monitoring of patients experiencing mild respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, and colds shall be under the supervision of the Department of Health (DOH).\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Villar Group is working with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and EEI for the conversion of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":250867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251078,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251077\/revisions\/251078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}