MARIVELES, Bataan—The provincial government inaugurated on Monday a treatment and monitoring facility for COVID-19 patients without symptoms inside the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) in this town.
The 76-bed Mariveles District Hospital-Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facility was built on a 1,512-square-meter area of FAB’s standard factory building No. 13.
Karen Balmaceda-Padaoan, senior information officer of the Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB), said the facility aims to augment the hospital facilities that have been occupied after the growing number of COVID-19 cases.
The provincial government and AFAB entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Health and Philippine Red Cross to operate the facility.
The facility has a movie projector, inter-faith prayer area, and positivity wall, which Bataan Gov. Albert Garcia said: “will help in the healing process of the COVID-19 patients.”