PH Red Cross receives RITM 5-star lab rating
MANILA - Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and CEO Senator Richard Gordon said the Philippine Red Cross Logistics Multipurpose Center (PLMC) molecular laboratory underwent a multistage process for Covid-19 lab assessment and received a five-star rating from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on Dec. 13, 2021. As the National Reference Laboratory for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, RITM regularly conducts proficiency testing to ensure and maintain the high-quality performance of independent laboratories. At the start of the pandemic, when the RITM conducted only...