Dumipensa ang Philippine Red Cross (PRC) sa isyu ng pagkakaroon ng false positive result ng kanilang RT-PCR test.
Ayon sa PRC, sumusunod sila sa test methodology at procedures ng standardized laboratories na pinapayagan ng Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).
Inilabas ng Red Cross ang paliwanag, kasunod ng panibagong batikos ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na hindi tama ang ilang inilalabas na resulta ng mga pagsusuri.
Kaya naman, maging sa Senado, ipinaliwanag ni PRC chairman at Senate blue ribbon committee chairman Sen. Richard Gordon na accurate ang kanilang mga test.
At kung may ilang pagdududa, isinasalang nila ito sa panibagong pagsusuri.
Maging si Health Sec. Francisco Duque III ay kinumpirma naman ang mga sinasabi ni Gordon ukol sa Red Cross test na isinasagawa.
“The testing samples alluded to in the hearing at the Lower House pertain to samples taken at the Unihealth-Baypointe Hospital and Medical Center in Subic Bay Freeport Zone by their personnel and tested at the PRC Molecular Laboratory also in Subic Bay Freeport Zone. Of the 48 samples, 45 turned out positive, triggering a complete re-run and a manual process to eliminate the possibility of erroneous results, which may be caused by cross-contamination. This is an example of a situation where the PRC, on its own initiative and at its own expense, requires an automatic re-run by its molecular labs in order to ensure the accuracy of results. On the second run, the results came out exactly the same. The Subic laboratory followed standard operating procedures and quality assurance guidelines as it has done for all 122,000 samples processed by the Subic lab from July 1, 2020 to September 3, 2021,” saad ng pahayag mula sa PRC.
