The Eastern Visayas Regional COVID-19 Testing Center (Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory) of the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVMRC) in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines is now certified by DOH to perform independent testing for COVID-19 by Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR).
The RITM-DOH has released the certificate as of May 8, 2020.
The molecular laboratory of EVRMC shall continue to participate in the Proficiency Testing Program of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, follow Operational Guidelines for COVID-19 Laboratories and abide by the highest laboratory quality standards.
Last May 3, 2020, a team of pathologists and medical technologists from EVRMC was sent for a 3-day COVID-19 Proficiency Testing at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center Sub-national Laboratory and TB Laboratory-CHD 7 in Cebu.
The molecular testing laboratory is in stage 4 for the accreditation as a testing center for COVID-19 in the region. A proficiency testing will be done before stage 5 or the fnal stage of the accreditation. Once the lab will be granted stage 5 accreditation by Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM), it can now run the RT-PCR tests for the entire region. (Eastern Visayas CME)
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