By Mao Xinhui
At 9:30 p.m. on April 6, four mobile cabin laboratories were put into use in Wangu Science and Technology Park in Yangpu, with a daily nucleic acid testing capacity of 40,000 samples.
Compared with traditional clinical laboratory, the mobile cabin laboratory can offer nucleic acid tests at any place. The fully closed labs are equipped with isolated reagent preparation room, sample treatment room, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) room in strict accordance with biosafety requirements. At the site there are special areas arranged for medical waste transfer, sample docking and reception and other functions.
"If a mobile cabin lab operates 24 hours a day, it can test 10,000 tubes of samples per day in average. If the 10-person mixed-test mode is adopted, it can test 400,000 people per day," Pang Yan, director of the Office of the District Medical Insurance Bureau, told the reporter. After a cabin lab has received samples, all the test procedures like extraction, mixing and amplification of nucleic acids can be done in it. Usually, the sampling results can be issued 2-3 hours after receiving the samples, which greatly improves the efficiency of nucleic acid test.
It is learned that the 4 mobile cabin labs were specially dispatched by the District Medical Insurance Bureau via the aid of the enterprises in the industrial park to support Yangpu. When knowing the nucleic acid testing needs of Yangpu District, Shanghai GeneneXus Co., Ltd. immediately contacted its affiliates to urgently transfer 4 biosafety laboratories meeting P2 biosafety standard from Beijing, Shandong and Anhui to Yangpu overnight. In addition, it deployed expert resources from across the country and seconded 90 professional laboratory staff to support Yangpu.