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SITE INSPECTION FOR FACILITIES TO RECIEVE PCR MACHINE FOR COVID-19

26th April 2021 - The Ministry of Health received a donation of PCR machines from the Private Sector Foundation Uganda as support towards addressing COVID 19 and MoH decided to inspect the different Regional Referral Hospitals(Jinja, Kabale, and Hoima) with the aim of;

  •  Increasing access to COVID 19 testing at subnational level with provision of real-time testing and reporting of COVID 19 results from suspected cases both admitted and those that fall within the response category as well as reduce the turnaround time for samples referred to reference laboratories.
  • Establishing and building a strong human resource capacity among the laboratory testing staff in COVID 19 molecular testing, biosafety and Quality Assurance and be able to meet the required skills and capacity for molecular testing.