‘True Nat' sample testing technique to increase capacity

In view of the increasing load of the samples at the existing testing facilities, the state health department has decided to start district level screening and testing facility. The mission director (MD) of National Health Mission (NHM),Yugal Kishore Pant, said that ‘True Nat’ sample testing technique would be used in five centres of the state.

He said that these machines would be installed at Government Mela Hospital Haridwar, Joint hospital Roorkee, district hospital (DH) Rudrapur, DH Uttarkashi and DH Pithoragarh. Pant added that that necessary training would be provided to the staff in these five centres and 80 to 100 samples per day would be tested there which would enhance the testing capacity of the state.  It is pertinent to mention here that the sample backlog at the testing facilities in the state has gone beyond 4000 mark.