Ranchi: The Jharkhand Rural Health Mission in association with the Delhi-based JITM Skills Pvt Ltd launched five mobile RT-PCR test laboratories in the state on Saturday. Additional chief secretary (health0 Arun Kumar Singh flagged off the mobile laboratories which will be deployed in five districts Ranchi, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Palamu and Hazaribag – since the positivity rate is higher or the population density is more in those areas.
The mobile laboratories, approved by ICMR and the National Accreditation Board for Laboratories, have a capacity to test 1,000-1,500 samples per day. The mobile labs would cover an area within 35km radius of the district headquarters and also test samples collected from far-off areas of the five districts.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the AAP government to take action against illegal and unauthorised pathological laboratories in the national capital in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court. Take action as directed by the Supreme Court against some of the illegal labs, a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh said to the Delhi government. The high court asked the Delhi government to place before it on the next date of hearing April 7 the action taken by it against illegal and unauthorised labs. The oral direction from the bench came during hearing of a plea seeking urgent implementation of the Delhi government s Health Bill, 2019, or the Delhi Clinical Establishment Act, 2010.