From the article:
The project was welcomed by Prashant Yadav, visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert on global health supply chains.
“Building very long supply chains for testing has its own set of challenges, often economic and how quickly can you respond. So having shorter supply chains is useful and if they can do this in Senegal for Africa and [in the] U.K. for Europe, that would be my textbook ideal model of how to run a supply chain,” he said.
He added that the success of such a project in practice was largely dependent on having reliable infrastructure, such as an uninterrupted energy supply, and sufficient working capital. Development finance institutions could play a role in ensuring that the DiaTropix facility — and others like it — could stay properly financed.
