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PRC Opens Biomolecular Laboratory

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The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Zamboanga City Chapter is set to open its Biomolecular Laboratory on Thursday located inside the PRC Compound at Petit Barracks.

Joseline Fernandez, OIC PRC administrator told RPN DXXX Zamboanga, the laboratory will be operational 24/7 and will have two machines for conducting the Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test for  Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19).

The new testing center already has its License to Operate issued by the Department of Health Central Office.

According to Fernandez, the two machines are automated and can test 2,000 samples per day. Each machine can test 1,000 samples.

A total of 25 personnel will man the laboratory consisting of 15 medical technologist, three laboratory aide, three encoders, three swabbers, and one Pathologist.

They can collect the swab samples at the area by schedule or right at the laboratory. P4,000 testing fee will be collected for those who are interested.

Three laboratories are currently operating: the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) laboratory, the ZCMC-DA (Department of Agriculture) satellite laboratory at Barangay Tumaga, and the containerized RT-PCR testing laboratory at the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga (CMZ) hospital. (R.G. Antonet A. Go)

 

(Source: Interview with Joseline Fernandez, OIC PRC administrator)

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