A human team of professionals highly committed to its vocation of service makes the University of Cauca fulfill one of its missionary purposes today: projection to the community.

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After its certification by the National Institute of Health, the Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biology of the University of Cauca works on the analysis of the COVID 19 tests submitted by the hospital centers and IPS Health Services Provider Institutions of the department of the Cauca.

“One of the contributions of the University of Cauca to public health strategies to contain the impact of COVID 19 is the certification and implementation of our Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biology, which constitutes one of the most important proposals in the design and execution of the virus containment and suppression packages, since the health teams will have timely information on the new positive cases, which allows a better epidemiological fence, "said José Luis Diago Franco , rector of the Universidad del Cauca.

This Laboratory has high-tech and higher-level equipment that allows for a short-time analysis of each of the samples. The use of these equipments allows reducing working times with reliable results in the analysis of a good number of COVID 19 tests.

“We have equipment like the real-time thermocycler that allows us to amplify the nucleic acids of the virus. If the virus is in a sample, we process it, extract its nucleic acids and in this team we can amplify it, that is, we take it to a larger volume to be able to identify it,”added Gloria Inés Ávila González, coordinator of the Group of University Immunology.

The Rector of the Alma Mater of the Caucanos highlighted the contribution made by the human talent trained in the Institution to face the pandemic. However, it demanded the need to provide hospital personnel with the required biosafety conditions.

"Faced with the preparation of our graduates in the attention of COVID 19, each of them has the necessary bases to make decisions from their disciplines, but with a great flaw, that they do not have a total availability of elements to date of biosecurity therefore all our population of graduates and non-graduates responsible for front-line care is highly vulnerable to the virus due to lack of personal protection, "emphasized the University Director.

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