Apollo Clinic, one of the pioneering multi-speiality clinic chains in India has launched the Mother s Month campaign honoring all mothers in India. As a constitutent of the campaign, the clinic chain is intending the reduction of the burden of Non-
With a change in people's sentiment and armed with tech advancements, the home-based diagnostics sector is likely to sail through smoothly. The recent great leaps in AI and IoT in healthcare, not to mention the need to maintain ‘social distancing’ and lack of workforce in the healthcare sector, as in others as well, has become a driving force to reckon with. Let’s explore this exciting new phase in healthcare.
Diagnostic laboratories say the capping of RT-PCR rates by state governments will make their business unviable and could lead to a reduction in their testing capacities. The reactions came in the wake of the Maharashtra government’s announcement on Wednesday to cap the minimum rate of RT-PCR test at Rs 500 and rapid antigen test at Rs 150. “It is an extremely challenging situation for the private labs. Such low level of price capping makes routine operations of a lab strenuous. We urge the government to have discussions with the private labs on the actual cost of running a test and arrive at an agreeable disposition,” said Sushant Kinra, chief operating officer of Suburban Diagnostics which runs 200 centres across sixteen cities in Western India.