KITS USED IN COVID-19 TESTS

OVP turns over P5.3-M in extraction kits to RITM

The Office of Vice President (OVP) Leni Robredo turned over P5.3 million worth of extraction kits, which would be used in the tests for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine.

“The OVP allotted some P5.3 million for these kits, which may be used in the process of conducting a total of 12,750 tests," the OVP said in a statement.

Aside from RITM, the OVP said that the extraction kits could also be used by the following hospitals identified as subnational laboratories which could assist in the surveillance of the illness:

• Lung Center of the Philippines
• San Lazaro Hospital

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• UP-National Institutes of Health
• Baguio General Hospital
• Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu and
• Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City

Aside from the extraction kits, the OVP also spearheaded a fund drive for the purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers.

As of March 19, the fund drive had raised P20 million, and part of the said amount had been used to buy and distribute PPE.

The OVP also provided shuttle services to health care workers affected by the ban on mass transport due to the enhanced community quarantine over Luzon — DVM, GMA News