ABDUL KHALIQ QURESHI
ABBOTTABAD Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani Thursday handed over long-awaited Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine to Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) for testing coronavirus. The machine carries the testing capacity for 180 samples in 24 hours and it would start functioning after installation in the next 2 to 3 days. The speaker said that the government had fulfilled its commitment regarding the provision of PCR machine to ATH to facilitate COVID-19 – affected people of the Hazara division. He revealed that the provincial government would ensure provision of coronavirus testing machines to major hospitals of the province wherein Bio Safety Cabinet (BSC), required for foolproof functioning of PCR machine, was available.
