Modular COVID-19 Testing Booths Help Thai Hospitals Reach More People During Pandemic

Challenge

The testing rate from remote neighborhoods was low because residents were often required to endure a long commute to hospitals located in the city center to undergo testing and receive the test result.

A leading public hospital in Thailand came up with the idea of setting up modular testing booths to bring testing services to residents living in remote areas.

Approach

Working closely with the hospital, DKSH proceeded to supply and instalthe modular COVID-19 testing booths in these remote locations.

With our knowledge and expertise of the testing processes, DKSH managed the entire project scope: sourcing for builders for the boots, designing the workflow, planning the layout, installing the equipment, and providing training for the after-sales services. The modular booths comprised of four rooms: sample collection room, extraction room, master mix preparation room, and amplification room.

We also provide integrated testing solutions including the instruments, consumables, and reagents all within a week after being commissioned for the project. The equipment and solutions we provided include a real-time PCR instrument, microplate shaker, microcentrifuge, pipette and tips, extraction kits, and automated nucleic acid extractor.

Result

Using these modular testing booths, hospitals can now serve residents living in remote areas and this also helps authorities to ease the overall testing demand for the market’s population.

Because of the modular booths that helped streamlined the testing process, test results were available to the patient between 30 minutes to one hour.