CABANATUAN CITY – Three facilities, including a private university, were readied to accommodate persons under investigation in Nueva Ecija, if the need arises.
The Cabanatuan City Information and Tourism Office announced that Wesleyan University – Philippines here agreed to accommodate PUIs, per the response ofuniversity president Benjamin Turgano to a request from Mayor Myca Elizabeth Vergara.
The sangguniang panlalawigan headed by Vice Gov. Anthony Umali, on the other hand, passed Resolution No. 157-2020 on March 24 which granted a request by Dr. Huberto Lapuz, director of the Paulino J. Garcia Memorial Research and Medical Center to make the Nueva Ecija Drug Treatment Rehabilitation Center in Palayan City to be its extension ward for PUIs.
The drug rehab facility can accommodate up to 58 patients.
In Talavera, Mayor Nerivi Santos Martinez also opened their modern evacuation center, built by the Department of Public Works and Highways, as an isolation room for PUIs.
