Great Bay:--- Last week, the St. Maarten Laboratory Services (SLS) received from the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) 200 field sample collection kits including dry shippers and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Minister of Public Health Social Development & Labor, Cornelius De Weever handed over the items to Hose Booi, Director of SLS.
These items were given under the project "Strengthening Laboratory Capacity and Biorisk Management," which is being funded through the Canadian Global Partnership Programme's strategy for strengthening global biological security.
The project aims to strengthen laboratory capacity and biorisk management in CAREC and CMC's and reinforcing capacities for safe and rapid sampling and shipping of specimens to local, regional and/or international laboratories. Enhancing the sampling and transport chain is essential to reinforce the global biological risk management process.