TRICHY: The microbiology department at the KAP Viswanatham Government Medical College Hospital (KAPVGMC), has initiated QR code-equipped
RT-PCR results for Covid-19 testing to endorse the genuineness of the report.
On Thursday, the department issued the report to a Dubai-bound
woman passenger “We are marching ahead to submit the patient’s
RT-PCR test result with
QR code,” said dean of the hospital K Vanitha in a statement on Thursday night.
Interestingly, it was a request from the woman passenger that prompted the department head Dr K Lakshmi and three tech-savvy colleagues from other departments – assistant professors of physiology Dr G Gnanasenthil and Dr MSathish and Dr M Ezhil Nilavan from the microbiology department to deliver the result in few hours.
“As soon as we have received the request from the passenger, I conveyed it to the three doctors who have been helping our department with technical support during the Covid-19 pandemic. The three doctors skilled with software technologies have made this possible and we have issued the first QR-coded results last night itself,” Lakshmi told TOI on Friday.
The objective of introducing the QR code-enabled result is to help the passengers prove the genuineness of the report to the immigration authorities of the countries where they are travelling to, from India. The immigration officials can scan the QR code which will take them to the portal where they can confirm the genuineness of the report.