Chandigarh: Apart from the UT Health Department showed interest to be trained by PGI to establish a RPCR laboratory, there were no such plans distributed with PGI.
There are only two facilties, PGI and GMCH 32, which consistently do a RPCR test.
“The Microbial Technology Institute (IMTech), which was tied at the beginning of the pandemic, stopped testing Chandigarh samples due to problems in sample transportation,” said an UT health department official.
PGI has trained many health care workers to establish a RPCR laboratory in places as far as Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.
“We have time now and can take the time for training,” said Prof.
Mini P Singh from the Department of Virology, PGI.
The source said that the UT Health Department did not approach PGI after the initial conversation of the training staff to start RTCPR.
“We even train pathologists from the remote Ladakh range in a few days and now they are independent in testing,” Prof Singh said.
Public health experts underline the need to increase testing before a surge to prevent the spread of disease and manage transmissions even though the variant.
“It has been seen that in the state in which testing has been aggressive, there are viral transmission regulations.
The UT Health Department has roamed in the three private laboratories for RTCPR testing and has fixed the tariff in the Haryana pattern.” This is done when there are many samples and only PGI and GMC.
which serves requests.
The Government of Multispeciality Hospital 16 is a district hospital that does not have this facility.
However, in Haryana all district hospitals are equipped with a test, “said Prof.
Singh.