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BANGKOK, Aug 23 (TNA) - Thailand's Public Health Ministry has introduced a state-of-the art bird flu mobile laboratory to be dispatched to the bird flu prone province of Phichit.
The ministry has developed bird flu mobile labs capable of giving lab test results within four hours.
Public Health Minister Pinit Jarusombat inaugurated the mobile labs at the Impact Muang Thong Thani Complex in Nonthaburi Wednesday.
Installed with lab equipment designed by the Medical Sciences Department, the vehicle itself was modified from a ten-wheel truck, and has its own electricity generating unit.
The Bt15million vehicle will be on duty around the clock. It's personnel can diagnose many diseases including bird flu, the hand foot and mouth disease, and dengue fever, the public health minister said.
The first mobile lab will be stationed in the northern province of Phichit and a second is posted to the Medical Sciences Department in Bangkok. The ministry will build two additional mobile labs to be
stationed in or dispatched to other regions as needed, he added.
Dr. Paichit Warachit, director-general of the Department of Medical Sciences, said that the existing mobile labs needed additional support equipment from hospitals as well as an outside electricity supply source, so they can't be assigned to remote areas.
The old mobile units required 6 to 7 hours to deliver laboratory test results, longer than the new labs.
The department plans to extend the capacity of the new labs to diagnose other diseases such as SARS, he said.
Thailand has suffered 24 human cases of bird flu, including 16 fatalities, since the disease was first detected here in early 2004. (TNA)-E004
Last Update : 2006-08-23 / 14:49:20 (GMT+7:00)
BANGKOK, Aug 23 (TNA) - Thailand's Public Health Ministry has introduced a state-of-the art bird flu mobile laboratory to be dispatched to the bird flu prone province of Phichit.
The ministry has developed bird flu mobile labs capable of giving lab test results within four hours.
Public Health Minister Pinit Jarusombat inaugurated the mobile labs at the Impact Muang Thong Thani Complex in Nonthaburi Wednesday.
Installed with lab equipment designed by the Medical Sciences Department, the vehicle itself was modified from a ten-wheel truck, and has its own electricity generating unit.
The Bt15million vehicle will be on duty around the clock. It's personnel can diagnose many diseases including bird flu, the hand foot and mouth disease, and dengue fever, the public health minister said.
The first mobile lab will be stationed in the northern province of Phichit and a second is posted to the Medical Sciences Department in Bangkok. The ministry will build two additional mobile labs to be
stationed in or dispatched to other regions as needed, he added.
Dr. Paichit Warachit, director-general of the Department of Medical Sciences, said that the existing mobile labs needed additional support equipment from hospitals as well as an outside electricity supply source, so they can't be assigned to remote areas.
The old mobile units required 6 to 7 hours to deliver laboratory test results, longer than the new labs.
The department plans to extend the capacity of the new labs to diagnose other diseases such as SARS, he said.
Thailand has suffered 24 human cases of bird flu, including 16 fatalities, since the disease was first detected here in early 2004. (TNA)-E004
Last Update : 2006-08-23 / 14:49:20 (GMT+7:00)