Published: March 16, 2021 4:21 PM IST
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February 11, 2021 LUIS Hora Memorial Regional Hospital (LHMRH) in Abatan, Bauko, Mountain Province will soon be equipped with an operative molecular laboratory.
The Department of Health (DOH) recently granted LHMRH its license to operate as Covid-19 testing center for Mountain Province and its neighboring provinces.
Once it starts to operate, specimens collected in the province will no longer be transported to Baguio City or elsewhere for testing services after the health department issued the hospital its license to operate effective February 4, 2021 and will be valid until December 31, 2021.
The granting of the license was through the efforts of Representative Maximo Dalog Jr., and the hospital administration under Dr. Eduardo Calpito, chief of hospital.