MORE facilities have opened to help Baguio City.
Philip Puzon, chief of staff to the mayor, said owners of the former Sto. Niño hospital agreed to open the facility for the use of the city.
Puzon said the city may now use the former hospital either as a containment facility or a diagnostic center for Covid–19 health concerns.
Puzon added cleaning of the former hospital will be done as well as the assessment of what equipment and materials is needed to make the facility functional.
“There are beds in the facility but we have to assess what we need. We also need to clean and refurbish it,” the chief of staff said.
Puzon added if the city can acquire a new set of scanners, the facility will be used as a diagnostic center but the city may also use the building as a containment facility to augment the present situation of Lindi Hotel.
The private sector stepped out to the call of the city to help with Lindi Hotel along Legarda Road pledged to convert the area into a Covid-19 facility.
Meanwhile, Starwood Hotel has likewise offered its facilities for the city’s use to house medical frontliners temporarily to help them rest after active duty.
The hotel along Kisad Road allowed the use free of charge of its unoccupied rooms for the use of front liners of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center.