Rt-Pcr in Barishal Division: One lab for 1 crore

Barishal division's only RT-PCR lab, set up at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College, is struggling to examine samples, as the demand for Covid-19 tests rises. Inaugurated in February, the lab with no virologist has only one RT-PCR machine and 11 technologists, and is testing only about half the samples collected in the division per day. Dr AKM Akbar Kabir, in-charge of the lab and