Weifang Daily News, Weifang Rong Media News Our city is currently in a critical period of epidemic prevention and control. “The laboratory’s unique large-scale and standardized nucleic acid detection function will become an important guarantee for screening the new coronavirus at the first time and assisting the prevention and control of the epidemic.
Weifang Fire Eye Laboratory under construction.
The accuracy of a series of nucleic acid testing instruments such as polymerase chain reaction analyzers (PCR instruments), medical sterilization equipment, centrifuges, and pipettes used in the Fire Eye Laboratory must all pass Metrology verification is the guarantee, and the metrology technical service in charge of the Municipal Metrology Institute has become the key to accurate screening after the completion and use of the Fire Eye Laboratory in our city.
Weifang Fire Eye Laboratory is accelerating the construction.
“Party member commando” went to the front line of construction
Our city began to build the “Huoyan” laboratory on March 12. On March 14, Weifang Metrology Institute received the urgent task of immediately conducting metrological verification of the “Huoyan” laboratory equipment.
The epidemic is an order, and Weifang Metrology Institute made the deployment at the first time, and dispatched 14 technical backbones including the business room, ionizing radiation room, physical and chemical room, thermal room, and quality room. Party members took the lead in establishing “Party Member” Commandos”, and make preparations for on-site inspections in strict accordance with regulations and specifications. The goal of all the commandos is only 16 short words – “no conditions, resolute obedience, no disgrace to the mission, victory and return”.
At 16:00 on March 14, the commandos arrived at the construction site on time. Since the “Huoyan” laboratory was built overnight, the commandos overcame the difficulties in basic guarantees such as site and power supply, and immediately carried out the installation and debugging of instruments and equipment, and carried out measurement verification and calibration work in an orderly manner.
Technical personnel test the medical refrigerator.
Repeated verification to overcome the challenges of body, mind and endurance
The “Fire Eye” laboratory is different from ordinary medical testing laboratories. There are many instruments in the laboratory, and the electromagnetic environment is complex. The signal of the inspection equipment is unstable, and the technicians often have to re-edit the basic program and repeat the debugging before calibration. It usually takes more than an hour for the instrument to be calibrated in 20 minutes. To complete the task on time within the specified time is not a small challenge to the physical and mental endurance of the commandos.
Faced with the challenge, the commandos rose to the challenge and began to attack the fort. They worked together in solidarity and continued to fight, starting at 1 pm on March 14, and fighting until the morning of March 16, sending a batch of equipment that had been inspected and calibrated into the laboratory. Although the commandos were all young people, they had to come out to breathe after working in a relatively closed air membrane for a few hours. Not only was the whole body soaked with sweat, but the muscles all over the body were also extremely sore. It was in such an environment that they worked continuously for 42 hours, and successively completed 126 PCR analyzers, 52 medical pipettes, 26 medical centrifuges, 12 medical refrigerators, 8 medical sterilizers, and 4 medical sterilizers. The inspection and calibration of major instruments and equipment such as biological safety cabinets and 4 purification workbenches, and sorting out inspection records overnight and issuing a calibration certificate for metrological verification, bought time and laid the foundation for the “Huoyan” laboratory in Weifang City to be put into use as scheduled.
The technician checks the PCR analyzer.
Excellent technology guarantees accurate and reliable detection
It is understood that in order to ensure the normal operation of equipment, after the next large-scale nucleic acid detection, commandos must wear isolation suits to enter nucleic acid Detect the experimental site, and implement online adjustment of the instruments and equipment in use. At that time, the environment they face will be more complex and the task will be more difficult.
In the face of this battle against the epidemic, all the staff of the “Party Commando” said that they will practice the work style of “strictness, detail, realism and speed”, and use accurate and reliable measurement technology to fully guarantee epidemic prevention and control. Demand, and contribute to the measurement force to overcome the epidemic as soon as possible and achieve social “dynamic clearing”.
Technicians verify the equipment.
Weifang Daily All Media Reporter: Liu Wei/Wentu Cui Yanshuo/Video