Kyrgyzstan still using PCR test systems received as humanitarian assistance, Health Minister says

AKIPRESS.COM - PCR test systems for COVID-19 were not purchased since I assumed office," Minister of Health Alymkadyr Beishenaliev said in Parliament on July 14.
PCR test systems that were handed over as humanitarian assistance to Kyrgyzstan are used all this time, the Health Minister said.
"We can't impose our prices for tests to private laboratories. But we meet with them and ask to cut prices," the Health Minister said.
"There is one public laboratory in Bishkek and Osh each. The PCR test fee makes 780 soms in public laboratories," Health Minister Beishenaliev said.