GSVM to get one RT-PCR machine soon

Anant Chandak | TNN | Updated: Apr 28, 2020, 10:30 IST

KANPUR: Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi memorial medical college (GSVM) will soon get one RT-PCR machine to examine coronavirus samples.
According to sources, following an appeal made by district magistrate Brahmadeo Ram Tiwari urging people and business houses to come forward and contribute financially in the anti-corona campaign, the management of Neyveli Lignite Corporation, under its social responsibility fund, provided machine to the medical college. At present, GSVM medical college has two machines for the testing coronavirus samples.
Dr Prashant Tripathi, nodal officer, multi-disciplinary unit of GSVM medical college, confirmed that the college would soon get one more RT-PCR machine. With the new machine, the capacity to test samples would increase, he said.
Meanwhile, nodal officer Nitin Ramesh Gokarn has also underlined the need to increase capacity of sample collection, their examination and contact tracing. “Leaving a person free after collecting his/her sample is quite risky as the process being adopted so far has given dangerous results and increased infected persons”, he said. Now, we have to adopt the scientific approach for successful testing of samples with zero risk, he added.
He has asked the officials to increase the number of teams for tracing contacts. “The medical college is at present testing around 200-250 samples per day, and there is a need to test more suspected cases. The authorities have been asked to install one more machine in the medical college so that 700-1000 samples could be tested there per day”, the nodal officer said.
District magistrate Brahmadeo Ram Tiwari has also stressed on increasing the collection and capacity of testing samples at a review meeting held at UHM on Sunday evening.
He has asked the officials to increase number of teams for contact tracing so that the last person who had come in contact with the infected person could be traced and treated.