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Dr. George Gough, CEO, Ministry of Health
"When it comes to the PPE suits, the ones that you see in the full white, we presently enjoy an inventory of about 100,000 in country in our warehouses and we have about 15,000 still coming from an IDB subsidy, not to say that we are going to be issuing them recklessly or irresponsibly. When it comes to the gowns for example, I am also glad to say that we have more than 34,000 of blue ones which are the sterile ones and we have over 20,000 of the non-sterile ones and we have a total of about 75,000 still coming into the country. When it comes to the masks, like the one I am wearing, we presently enjoy close to a million in the warehouse and I have close to about 700,000 coming in the next few weeks. The N-95 which are very demanded upon due to the contact tracers and people doing swabs, the health care workers in the ICU, the health care workers in the operating rooms, presently we have a total of 11,000 and we are looking at close to about 100,000 coming in right now from the donors of IDB and the Taiwanese grant. Presently at the lab, the central lab our PCR, not the rapid, the solid PCR testing that we are doing, we enjoy presently a stock to be able to do at least 26,000 tests in the country, that is a very comfortable point and position at this time if we are to change our protocols a bit slightly, with rapid antigen tests we also had the foresight about a month ago to bring in 5,000 rapid antigen tests that we have quietly stored at our labs, we are presently procuring as we speak yesterday and Monday, another 10,000 that should be in country later this week, that money has already been secured by the ministry of finance."