Duque apologizes for not giving ‘equal push’ for regional COVID-19 testing labs

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This came after Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri urged the COVID-19 national task force to “speed up” the accreditation of regional testing centers. Read:

“She was admitted to the Northern Mindanao Medical Center on May 1 and yet she was swabbed May 3. The swab was still sent to Davao City. Two days later she passed away and then a few days after, the test came out and she was positive,” Zubiri said.

“I’ve spoken with a few in other regions and they told me the delay is they’re still waiting for the trainers to come from Manila and it’s taken two weeks before they would come to actually train the people on the ground then certified after by the [World Health Organization] and the DOH,” the senator said.

Meanwhile, the National Task Force against COVID-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr.assured the Senate that it was expediting the accreditation of several regional testing centers.“We will make sure, the president has told me, that we have to ramp up the accreditation of all the hospitals, laboratories because he knows that areas in Mindanao and also the Visayas are very vulnerable…without testing laboratories,” Galvez said.

 

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