Peru Cusco Have Tender

The Cusco region will have its own macro-regional genomic processing laboratory to carry out genomic surveillance and will also allow the identification of COVID-19 variants that circulate in southern Peru.The announcement was made by Javier Ramrez Escobar regional manager of Health e in the framework of a meeting of the COVID Command a regional body made up of 25 institutions where strategies and guidelines are planned to carry out a coordinated and responsible work in order to make him in the face of the pandemic.Ramrez Escobar specified that the National Institute of Health INS in order to decentralize its genomic studies has selected 5 regions at the country level. In southern Peru the Cusco region was selected and for which it will assign equipment as well as transfer the methodology and technology to install this laboratory he said.He indicated that as Regional Health Management GERESA a space is being adapted in the Accamana health center level I-3 in the San Jernimo district in order to meet health and quality requirements. Cusco is the third region that records the genomic sequence analysis said the doctor.It should be noted that a genomic laboratory provides the scientific community with a wide range of services that facilitate genomic research with a functional approach.The Cusco COVID Command during its session also addressed preventive strategies to control a possible third wave of the coronavirus in the region.One of the first measures adopted is to accelerate the vaccination process in the Cusco region as well as to influence the extraction of more samples for the detection of variants and reinforce the first level of care for a timely control of the disease. The supply of oxygen is also ensured among others.