COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is now on the third of a five-stage process required for accreditation by the Department of Health (DOH) to become a laboratory testing facility for coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, according to an official of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
COTABATO CITY – The Cotabato Regional Medical Center is now on the third of a five-stage process required for accreditation by the Department of Health to become a laboratory testing facility for coronavirus cases, according to an official of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao .
The CRMC is based in this city, which is a BARMM component area, but has remained under operational supervision of the DOH as a facility for medical concerns in both the Bangsamoro and Central Mindanao regions. Under a memorandum of agreement inked last month with the CRMC management, the BARMM government awarded a P14-million fund assistance for the medical facility to upgrade its operations to include a laboratory testing capacity for COVID-19 cases. The CRMC has since reached the third of five-stage process required for accreditation as a laboratory testing center for COVID-19, Dr. Safrullah Dipatuan, BARMM’s Health Minister, said in his latest virtual presser here. The third stage involves the conduct of intensive trainings for CRMC laboratory personnel concerned, Dipatuan said. The fourth stage will follow upon the setting up of medical equipment already ordered for purchase out of the P14-million grant, preceding the coming of specimen samples from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine to the CRMC for testing to verify accuracy level, Dipatuan said. When the results of the samples are confirmed accurate, the CRMC laboratory will then embark on the fight and final stage of official accreditation, he added.
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