TIRANA, July 17/ATA/- The Minister of Health and Social Protection, Ogerta Manastirliu inspected Friday the laboratory of the “Mother Teresa” University Hospital Center, while emphasizing that, the capacities for performing Real-Time PCR tests are being strengthened.
“The opening of the second laboratory, will create a good basis for increasing and developing testing, having a key objective: tracking cases and isolating them.This certified laboratory will increase the testing capacities and respond to the testing strategy implemented by the expertise of the Technical Committee of Experts,” Minister Manastirliu said.
Currently in the laboratory of the Institute of Public Health, which is a reference laboratory, testing capacities range between 500-1000 thousand a day and the opening of this laboratory for patients of COVID hospitals, will boost the capacity to test for virus, this laboratory is of biosafety 2 certified by World Health Organization (WHO),” Minister Manastirliu added. //a.i/
