San Miguel is really making a difference in this battle of
the country against the novel coronavirus 2019 disease or COVID-19 by making
sure that it helps the Philippine government in its quest to stop the spreading
of the fatal disease.
Thee country’s capacity will be doubling its coronavirus
testing capacity said the Department of Health (DOH) after the diversified food
conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC) donated machines ang essential
testing kits to help the government’s bid for a more wider scope in testing.
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) Director
Celia Carlos says that with the donation Philippine labs will be able to carry
out 9,500 tests per day from just 4,500 before.
 |
| SMC President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ramon Ang (photo credit to SMC) |
In its main office in Mandaluyong, San Miguel turned over to
the DOH five sets of coronavirus testing machines – each consisting of two
reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rtPCR) machines and one
automated ribonucleic acid (RNA) extraction machine.
Combined, the machines are capable of 5,000 to 10,000
COVID-19 tests per day.
Philippine labs
will see that doubling in testing capacity by next week, when all machines are
up, health officials said.
SMC has also
donated 20,000 testing kits.
“It comes as a
complete set. It comes with the swabbing. Eto yung pangkuha ng sample. It comes
with the transport UTM, universal transport media. It comes with the enzyme.
Kumpleto na,” Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said.
“It will be
faster because of the automation. So that is why we appreciate the donation,”
she added.
SMC President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ramon Ang is
rallying his friends from the business sector to do more in helping the
government by enabling the public health sector to be more effective in their
quest to control the spreading of the Coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m calling on
all our friends to put together a fund so that we can buy all the kits to
support the supplies to DOH so that they can continuously be able to process
20,000 patients a day,” San Miguel’s Ang said.
“Eh yung DOH,
'di ba ilang bilyon 'yung budget nila pambili niyan, kung makakabili sila at
kung meron silang pambili kaagad. Kung wala, tutulong pa rin kami,” he added.
What can you say about
this?
Share us your thoughts by simply leaving on the
comment section below. For more news updates, feel free to visit our site
often.
Stay
updated with today's relevant news and trends by hitting the LIKE button.
Thanks
for dropping by and reading this post.
Report from CNN Phils
Disclaimer: Contributed
articles does not reflect the view of THE PH CHRONICLES. This website cannot guarantee
the legitimacy of some of the information contributed to us. You may do additional
research if you find some information doubtful. No part of this article
maybe reproduced without permission from this website.
0 Comments