Manila, July 10 -- The Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH) Isolation Facility here is well underway following the approval of its multi-million peso budget by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP).
Governor Roel Degamo, together with members of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), visited and inspected the 34-bed capacity of the NOPH Isolation Facility on Friday.
It is located near the main buildings of the NOPH and was started sometime last week.
The SP (provincial board) recently approved the governor's request, which he sent about two months ago, for a PHP46-million budget for this project, in response to efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Cov...