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Young researchers from the National University of Engineering UNI La Molina National Agrarian University UNALM and the National Institute of Health INS of the Ministry of Health Minsa designed a laboratory for molecular diagnosis of COVID-19 that is fed with solar energy. Design of an installation at the point of care for the diagnosis of COVID-19 using an off-grid photovoltaic system is the name of this project launched more than six months ago by this team made up of INS biologist Oscar Escalante the environmental engineer from UNALM Jean Poll Alva and UNI engineer Ruddy Cabrejos. This system whose structure is practical functional and retractable is based on taking nasal and pharyngeal swab samples but applies the LAMP technique in its diagnosis using solar radiation to provide energy to the diagnostic system which is economical and non-polluting. Likewise it will allow 200 molecular tests per day with a reliable and fast detection of the virus at the point of patient care in such a way that COVID-19 cases can be properly tracked especially in the most remote places of Peru on all in those regions with unlimited access to electricity supply and health infrastructures. Due to its importance in times of pandemic this COVID-19 detection system was presented in the prestigious international journal Environment Development and Sustainability indexed in the Scopus and Web Of Science databases and in the US National Institutes of Healths National Library of Medicine also receiving the approval of the University of Oxford. It should be noted that the INS coordinates for its prompt implementation and has collaborated with this initiative by registering together with these young researchers a patent application in Indecopi October 2020 so that it can be applied anywhere in the world.
