AC Healthcare ramps up testing capacity

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AYALA Healthcare Holdings Inc. (AC Health), the healthcare arm of the Ayala Group of Companies is ramping up its new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing capacity to 50,000  per day by June as it helps to take up the slack in the government’s capacity to perform a wide range test, according to its president Paolo Borromeo.

Borromeo said  this is part of AC Health’s P300 million COVID-19 initiative  to address the pandemic.

Borromeo said the group’s goal is to hit 30,000 tests per day by the end of May, and up to 50,000 by the of June from  today’s 11,000.

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The company through its partner Qualimed Hospital is building five biosafety level 2 laboratories for confirmatory PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing, the first of which will be at the Tropical Disease Foundation facility in Makati, with whom AC Health forged a strategic partnership. The other laboratories are in Qualimed Sta. Rosa, Qualimed Batangas, Qualimed Bulacan and Qualimed Iloilo.

Borromeo said the Qualimed-Tropical Disease Foundation lab is expected to be operational by next week or the first week of June.

“We are targeting the remaining three labs: Batangas, Bulacan and Iloilo, to begin operations by June 15, if not sooner,” he said.

AC Health has partnered with Qualimed Hospital to convert its Qualimed Hospital Sta. Rosa into a COVID-19 referral hospital, complemented by the company’s 62 FamilyDoc and seven Healthway Clinics.

The FamilyDoc and Healthway clinics  serve as triage points for suspected COVID-19 cases for referral to appropriate facilities.

“Today the clinic network has triaged around 9,700 probable cases and 8,900 suspect cases.  We’re able to track the trend of cases over the last 10 weeks and we’re seeing the progression of cases related to the virus,” Borromeo said.

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