Author: Saul Pa-a September 2, 2018 at 3:14 PM
Outbreak monitoring toolkit. Ministry of Health-Calabarzon Regional Director Eduardo C. Janairo (on the podium) highlighted the portable laboratory kits provided by the ASEAN-Canada Global Partnership Program in Cavite, Neihu, Batangas, Rizal Provinces Health and Epidemics The importance of monitoring, and Quezon. He thanked the Canadian Embassy representative for their support for the turnaround of the field laboratory kit at the Alabang Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) compound in Muntinlupa on August 29, 2018. (Photo courtesy of DOH 4-A)
Laguna CALAMBA CITY - Department of Health (DOH) The Calabarzon Regional Office is one of the recipients of the portable laboratory kit for disease outbreak surveillance provided by the ASEAN-Canada Global Partnership Project (GPP).
In addition to Calabarzon, 16 other regional epidemiology and surveillance units (RESU) across the country received the kits on August 29 at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) complex in Alabang, Muntinlupa.
“The laboratory kit will ensure proper collection, packaging, and transportation, while observing on-site biosafety and enhancing data collection and reporting outbreaks. It can also be used to strengthen surveillance systems that can detect public health biological threat events of international concern. "DOH-Calabarzon Regional Director Eduardo C. Janairo said over the weekend.
Janairo said that if there is a possible disease outbreak in Cavite, Neihu, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon provinces, portable laboratory kits will come in handy.
"With this equipment, our epidemiologists can now provide early detection, confirmation and prevention of deadly pathogens, including the development of laboratory tests and the treatment and management of patients in the area of interest, without the need to send laboratory samples to RITM And wait for the result," he said.
Glen S. Ramos, an official of the Calabarzon Media Relations and Communications Unit (MRCU) of the Ministry of Health, said that the Ministry of Health has reported to the Philippines’ RESU, the Bureau of Epidemiology, Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) graduates, and selected provinces and cities for epidemic disease. The study and monitoring unit distributed the toolkit.
Ramos said these laboratory kits were funded by the ASEAN-Canada Global Partnership under a program called "Strengthening Response Capabilities to Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases."
The cooperation plan includes the establishment of a national laboratory for emerging dangerous pathogens, the enhancement of the epidemic investigation capabilities of the national and regional epidemiology and surveillance units of the Ministry of Health, and the enhancement of RITM's ability to respond to community biological threats.
Ramos said the field test kit includes rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for dengue fever and viral hepatitis for "quick and easy" preliminary or emergency medical screening or diagnosis.
He added that the field test kit is also equipped with some entomological equipment, such as aspirators and flashlights for indoor and outdoor mosquito collection, droppers, filter discs and wells, ladles, bottles for retaining larvae, and media dissection equipment. Funnel net.
Ramos said that the portable laboratory kit also has specimen collection supplies, such as blood culture bottles, Cary Blair medium/Stuarts transport medium, disposable storage bottles and syringes, slides and coverslips, gloves, labels- Specimen address, mask, disposable pipette, scalpel/blade, spatula, tweezers, ring holder, sharps handling container, scissors, sleeping bag, outdoor equipment, stationery, test tube holder, throat swab, tourniquet with clip , Universal transport media, vacuum cleaners with EDTA, portable digital centrifuges and centrifuge tubes.
The kit used for testing includes tape, alcohol swabs/bottles, Android tablets with GIS, biohazard bags, calculators, flashlights with rechargeable batteries, blood glucose monitoring kits, blood pressure meters, digital thermometers, digital cameras, hand sanitizers, Personal protective equipment, povidone-iodine, portable printers, portable projectors, smart watches with GPS, power banks, rechargeable lamps, rubber bands, alcohol lamps/gas lighters, sterile stool containers, luggage and smaller tools Box, vaccine carrier with ice pack, Ziploc plastic bag, matches, OMNI extension cord, pelican large box, plastic petri dish, sealing film, 64GB digital card, 16GB flash drive, ZTE pocket Wi-Fi kit and windbreaker.
"It complements the basic forms and reference documents used for investigations and incident reports," Ramos added. (PNA)
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