By Nora Soriño
Iligan City Bureau Chief
ILIGAN City ― At last, after more than a year when this city first broke the news of having a molecular laboratory, it was given license to operate by the Department of Health.
City Councilor Lamberto Macapaga, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Health, in a statement to reporters yesterday, said the launching of the said laboratory is scheduled on November 3.
It was then learned that the license from DOH is for the period October 21 to December 31 of this year. The total cost of such lab is around P25 million, the councilor said.
The said is located in the premises of the Gregorio Lluch Memorial Hospital at Palao, this city inside container vans. There were several requirements that the local government had difficulty complying with like disposal of medical wastes, appropriate personnel to do the testing, proper equipment, etc.
The local government, to note, has received so much flak on the matter as similar labs in nearby areas like Lanao Norte, Sur, Misamis Oriental, and Occidental had long operated. So the results of Covid suspects testing take time for the specimens have yet to be taken to a laboratory in some nearby area.
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