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DOST provides “no-contact” specimen collection booths to fight COVID-19

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SILAY CIY, Negros Occidental — A “no-contact” COVID-19 Specimen Collection Booth (SCB) will be provided by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

DOST VI turns over the first SCB for Western Visayas to Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital (TLJPH) in Silay City Negros Occidental.

DOST VI turn over the first Specimen Collection Booth (SCB) for Western Visayas at Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital (TLJPH) in Silay City Negros Occidental. DOST VI representatives are Asst. Regional Director Emelyn P. Flores (leftmost) and Engr. Glady T. Reyes (2nd from right). Dr. Ma. Estrella R. Ledesma, TLJPH Chief (2nd from left) with Medical Technologist Charity Hilado (rightmost) receives the SCB from DOST VI.
DOST VI turn over the first Specimen Collection Booth (SCB) for Western Visayas at Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital (TLJPH) in Silay City Negros Occidental. DOST VI representatives are Asst. Regional Director Emelyn P. Flores (leftmost) and Engr. Glady T. Reyes (2nd from right). Dr. Ma. Estrella R. Ledesma, TLJPH Chief (2nd from left) with Medical Technologist Charity Hilado (rightmost) receives the SCB from DOST VI.

The regional office is set to distribute five more SCB units to the hospitals in the region namely, Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital, Western Visayas Medical Center, Western Visayas Sanitarium, and Don Jose Monfort Medical Center Extension Hospital. These hospitals were identified by the Department of Health Center for Health and Development Region VI (DOH-CHD VI).

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The booths aim to test multiple patients without having physical contact with the medical staff.

The Specimen Collection Booth donated to TLJPH has proper ventilation and protective barrier, as well as seats, ensuring safety and comfort for both front-liner and suspected COVID-19 patient.
The Specimen Collection Booth donated to TLJPH has proper ventilation and protective barrier, as well as seats, ensuring safety and comfort for both front-liner and suspected COVID-19 patient.

It maintains a positive pressure inside the booth that comes from the ventilator with a filter in order to prevent outside contamination from coming in. With the help of the pressure sensor, the health worker is notified of the real-time pressure inside the booth, it also has a small built-in screen that displays the pressure difference inside the booth.

The DOST Region VI is now conducting the final inspection of the units that arrived in Iloilo City and shall continue with the distribution to the hospitals as soon as the units are ready.

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DOST is allocating P20M for the manufacturing, distribution, and installation of this innovation through its DOST-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) and the DOST-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) The mass production of the SCBs is DOST’s support to DOH’s efforts to conduct mass testing. (Sol Salazar/DOST VI)

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Hannah A. Papasin
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Writer. Critic. Professor. She started writing since primary school and now has two published textbooks on communication. A film buff, she's a Communication, Media Literacy and Journalism Professor of the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod, and has a Master's Degree in English.
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