Philippines Containerized Pcr Tender

The containerized reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction RT-PCR laboratory owned by the Bohol provincial government has been licensed to start operations .This is after receiving the result Monday morning August 24 that the containerized RT-PCR lab passed the proficiency test of the Department of Health-Research Institute for Tropical Medicine DOH-RITM.In his Facebook post Gov. Arthur Yap said this means that our PCR laboratory will start operating .The blessing of the laboratory located inside the Bohol Medical Care Institute BMCI compound in Tagbilaran City was held immediately on Monday at 2 p.m.It was attended by Gov. Yap and Dr. Cesar Tomas Lopez on coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19 Technical Working Group.This is expected to strengthen the capacity of Bohol province for the processing of s wab samples in the province.It is worth P20 million testing laboratory capable of running batch of 150 specimens in eight hours. It can test specimens daily which will reduce waiting time compared to the test conducted at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center VSMMC in Cebu city from patients here who still need to be taken there.But in recent days the samples have only been sent to Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital GCGMH in the city.First revealed as the spokesman Bohol Inter-Agency Task Force BIATF Dr. Yul Lopez this testing laboratory has 8 medical technologists one technician one pathologist and 2 encoders.It will be recalled that this containerized RT-PCR testing lab was inspected during their visit to their provincial Department of the Interior and Local Government DILG Secretary Eduardo Ao and Department of Tourism DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat on July 31. ecb PIA 7-Cebu