The irrua Specialist Hospital/Pandora Consortium in partnership with state Government (DTSG) has deployed a mobile Covid19 laboratory and has been commissioned at Asaba Specialist Hospital.
Performing the official commissioning of the state-of-the-art laboratory facility on behalf of Delta State Government, the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Chiedu Ebie, said that the partnership between Pandora and DTSG facilitated by Irrua Specialist Hospital was a healthy initiative.
"The mobile laboratory was the first in the series of laboratories that would be established in the state to facilitate faster testing of covid19 related cases in the state",Ebie disclosed.
He disclosed that the laboratory came at the right time as it would enable suspected cases of COVID-19 run test and get the result on time.
The SSG thanked management of Irrua Specialist Hospital and Pandora for deploying the mobile laboratory to the state, even as he called on others to partner the government in the fight against the dreaded corona virus.
The commissioner for health , Dr.Mordi Ononye said In his remarks during the ceremony that laboratory was a dream come through, pointing out that the center had the capacity to conduct as many test as possible.
Dr Ononye said that the state government was doing it's best in the containment of the disease, stressing that anyone with the symptoms of ailments should swiftly report to appropriate medical facilities of government for treatment.
He made mentioned of the two death cases recorded in Delta that it is as a result of the fact that the deceased patients reported very late to the appropriate medical facilities for treatment.
He stressed that the team handling Covid19 related cases in the state had all the technical know how to treat any suspected case of the disease.
Also speaking, the Chief Medical Director, Irrua Specialist Hospital, Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin, who was represented by the Director of Clinical Services, Training and Research, Dr. Reuben Eifediyi, noted that the deployment of the laboratory facility was to enable suspected cases in the state had access to medical facilities for testing that would engender effective treatment of COVID-19 patients.
He, therefore, charged residents of the state to maximize the opportunity to avert reporting to the hospital when the situation had gone critical.
The Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu and NCDC officials witnessed the commissioning ceremony
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