PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said the Goa government has been in the process of procuring genome sequencing machines.
This direction has been issued for Goa Medical College (GMC) who acts Dean from Tiawari to pursue a proposal for the procurement of machinery.
The proposal was handed over to the government some time ago, said Rane.
Because Goa does not have its own genome sequencing facility, samples are sent to the National Center for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune.
In most cases, there has been a major delay in receiving results from NCCS.
Very few results received from NCCS since health services began sending samples taken from international travelers over the past two weeks, while reports of more than 500 samples of local residents who were routinely sent over the past few months was still awaited.
Rane said this facility would enable health services to test in the state and produce faster results.
“The state government works without being saved to ensure that we get the earliest genome sequencing machine,” Rane said.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has begun the drop-school drop test, which helped choose covid samples that allowed with the omicron virus variant, at the district hospital, Mapapa.
However, a senior official in health services said they could not use it as a conclusive test with the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) which did not give them permission.
Gen’s dropout test that gives instructions about the possibility of the presence of the Omicron variant, the official said, must be confirmed by the genome sequencing.
Dropout genes are used as proxy markers to show which positive cases tend to be Omicron.
Because it is impossible to seutle all cases, this functions as an important marker to identify cases for Sentinel sequencing supervision, “said Pathologist consultant Dr.
Eugene d’Souza.
Goa govt to acquire genome sequencing machine: health min
