Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Govt to set up 150 viral diagnostic labs
Rajmeet Singh
Tribune News Service
Mohali, February 15
For a timely action against fatal viral infections like H1NI, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has started a pilot project to set up over 150 viral diagnostic labs across the country.
Through screening of patients at the labs, a data bank of the various types of viruses will be created and it will help the researchers in finding vaccines based on the scientific evidence. Sharing the information, Secretary of the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dr VM Katoch said under the project a referral lab each would be set up in each state. The National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD), New Delhi and the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, would be coordinating the sampling process.
Katoch, who is also director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), was in the city to participate in the Foundation Day celebrations at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) here. After taking over as secretary of the Department of Health Research, Katoch said at least 50 out of 200 leads in form of research papers and medicine delivery technologies, that were gathering dust, have been taken up so that same could reach the common man. For delivery of the technologies, the infrastructure was being strengthened.
?It has been found that often after conducting trails in limited areas, the leads are left by the researchers. The leads include simple ways to tackle various diseases,? he said.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100216/cth1.htm#5
Rajmeet Singh
Tribune News Service
Mohali, February 15
For a timely action against fatal viral infections like H1NI, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has started a pilot project to set up over 150 viral diagnostic labs across the country.
Through screening of patients at the labs, a data bank of the various types of viruses will be created and it will help the researchers in finding vaccines based on the scientific evidence. Sharing the information, Secretary of the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dr VM Katoch said under the project a referral lab each would be set up in each state. The National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD), New Delhi and the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, would be coordinating the sampling process.
Katoch, who is also director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), was in the city to participate in the Foundation Day celebrations at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) here. After taking over as secretary of the Department of Health Research, Katoch said at least 50 out of 200 leads in form of research papers and medicine delivery technologies, that were gathering dust, have been taken up so that same could reach the common man. For delivery of the technologies, the infrastructure was being strengthened.
?It has been found that often after conducting trails in limited areas, the leads are left by the researchers. The leads include simple ways to tackle various diseases,? he said.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100216/cth1.htm#5