South West : COVID-19 Testing Centres Now Available

Two laboratories for the testing of Coronavirus specimens have been established in the South West Region specifically in Fako Division. They are the Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the University of Buea and National Early Infant Diagnosis Reference Laboratory belonging to Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Complex in Mutengene. The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Public Health in charge of Epidemics and Pandemics, Alim Hayatou, inspected the state of preparedness of the two facilities last Thursday May 7, 2020. He also examined the Buea Regional Hospital COVID-19 treatment Centre, Middle Farms in Limbe COVID-19 treatment Centre and the Limbe Regional Hospital Treatment Centre. 
South West Regional Delegate for Public Health, Dr. Ebongo Zachues, explained that they are finalising the workability of the centres and they will certainly go operation this week. The availability of the testing centres in the region will drastically cut down the long journey of taking specimens to Yaoundé for testing with results taking between three to seven days to be available. Dr, Ebongo said the turnaround time in all the testing processes is six hours and those tested in the region should be sure of having their results in less than 24 hours. 
South West Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai presented to the Secretary of State, the balance sheet on the fight against COVID-19. His data showed that South West Region that the pandemic is presen...