NEW DELHI: Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched its first mobile testing van in New Delhi. The mobile lab was inaugurated by Dr Harshvardhan, Union Minister of Health, and has testing capacity of running 50 covid tests simultaneously.
The Ministry of Science and Technology’s Department of Biotechnology, in collaboration with MedTech Zone, Andhra Pradesh, developed the I-lab or infectious disease diagnostic lab in just a span of 8 days. The unit can be used to diagnose other diseases as well and will be used post- Corona as well.
The government is planning to develop 50 more such mobile labs in a bid to eradicate diseases by timely identification in remote rural areas of the country as well.