India’s first infectious disease diagnostic lab

The first disease diagnostics lab in India is now ready. The mobile laboratory is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. It is built with the support of Department of Bio-Technology. The laboratory promotes and supports the idea of being self-efficient in difficult times.

Key-Points:

The lab has been built in the recorded time of just 8 days.

The lab is a BSL-2 facility with on site Elisa, real-time reverse tranion polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) test and Bio chemistry analysers.

This lab can test Elisa about 200 per day and RTPCR about 50 per day.

About Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

The ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ campaign simply means that India should minimize its dependence on other countries. India should learn to manufacture within India everything that the country is forced to import.