Puerto Princesa City’s GeneXpert laboratory at the Ospital ng Palawan (ONP) will be diverting all testing to the city molecular diagnostic laboratory while their...
The newly-commissioned Puerto Princesa City Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory will increase COVID-19 testing capacity by relieving the load on the Ospital ng Palawan (ONP) GeneXpert...
The Ospital Ng Palawan GeneXpert COVID-19 Laboratory will temporarily halt operation for a week to give way for “cleaning and maintenance”.
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Palawan continues to struggle with its contact tracing efforts, as a shortage of testing cartridges needed for its RT-PCR confirmatory testing on COVID-19 cases...
The news was that the Department of Health could also no longer forward the samples to their main laboratories in Manila like they used to do when the Ospital ng Palawan had no laboratory yet, as these were supposedly heavily backlogged already.
Lawyer Norman Yap, co-spokesperson of the city IATF-EID, told the City Council on Monday morning that the Ospital Ng Palawan’s (ONP) GeneXpert laboratory is now down to “about 90 cartridges” for its COVID-19 testing.
Dr. Allan Guintapan, municipal health chief, told Palawan News in an interview Monday morning that they have discharged all three -- a 38-year-old female, a 19-year-old male, and an 8-month-old child, after 21 days of treatment in isolation.
