Philippine Genome Center Mindanao, 2020
Philippine Genome Center Mindanao reported on its mission from April 2020 onward to capacitate hospitals to do COVID-19 testing by training personnel on SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Since April 2020, PGC Mindanao trained 45 medical technologists, doctors, and biologists from six hospitals and institutions in Mindanao: the Dr. Royeca Hospital in General Santos City, the Lanao del Norte Medical Center, the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga, the Butuan Medical Center, the Davao Regional Medical Center in Tagum City, and the Cotabato Regional Medical Center. PGC Mindanao also reported the success of the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga and the Butuan Medical Center in acquiring the accreditation for COVID-19 testing from the Department of Health.
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Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Mindanao will offer a "Mindanao-wide webinar on Omics Research: Moving Past Pandemics” throughout October 2020. Omics are the branches of science in the various disciplines of biology that have names that end in -omics, such as genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, to name a few. The month-long webinar will feature omics in health, agriculture, and food research. PGC Mindanao is located at the University of the Philippines (UP) Mindanao in Davao City.