Gurgaon: Quick antigen testing kits for Covid have seen leaps in sales in the city when the case has soared again in the current wave of pandemic, but there has been a gap in reading this data with the health department saying it has no way of arresting it unless a patient voluntarily reports it .
Now, companies that make kits have fixed this problem and send us user data directly to the Portal of the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR).
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in recent letters to all states and trade union states, has recommended use Own tests for symptomatic individuals.
Many people choose this kit because this can be used for rapid checks, especially because in a hurry in the lab because of the current surge.
Previously, not all uploaded their results on the ICMR portal, making it difficult for the health department to track these cases and start treatments if they suddenly needed hospitalization.
“It is difficult for us to check how many kits are sold and how many tests are positive.
Our team calls all the positive Covid people uploaded on the portal to monitor their condition,” said Gurgaon Virender Medical Yadav said.
Meanwhile, KitMaker said they had fixed the problem and uploaded all data to the ICMR portal.
Hasmukh Rawal, Managing Director and One of the founders of MyLab Discovery Solutions, a leading manufacturer of home test kits, said: “We have witnessed a leap of nearly 500% in our Self-sales kit sales, in the past week.
Throughout India.
Our kit has a mechanism where Users must upload photos of their test strips on our mobile application.
Our application produces a report and sends it to ICMR.
“He added,” Patients can claim health insurance only for Covid expenditures if they produce a positive Covid report.
Therefore, report it, report it, report it useful People.
“People who have used kits say the testing process is simple.
“The results can be obtained only after uploading a photo strip test on the mobile application.
I even got a call from the Ministry of Health.
The process is very simple.
It saves time and protects one of the risk of infection out for the test,” said Mona Singh (34), a citizen sector 48, which was tested positively on a home kit last week and was in the current house isolation.
Said that this antigen kit mostly gave accurate results, but the RT-PCR test was recommended if the symptomatic people tested negatively.
“Self-testing kit can be done at home but can sometimes provide positive or negative false.
The problem is that it is possible that people who test positively dosolate themselves or get the right treatment,” said Dr.
Manoj Goel, director (pulmonology ), Fortis Memorial Research Institute.dr Shiba Kalyan Bal, a consultant (pulmonary) and sleep drugs) at Narayana Hospital, add, “treatment is prescribed according to symptoms and further evaluation.
If someone has symptoms but a negative test, it is recommended To go for RT-PCR for final confirmation.
“The Gurgaon Chemist Association said good sales and questions about the home test kit had risen significantly in the past week.
“Sales have risen after the increase in Covid cases.
The maximum sale we noticed in Gurgaon is the MyLab Kit,” said Anil Kumar, a member of the Association.