Covid fast-testing machine donated to Mohali hospital

Tribune News Service

Mohali, May 28

A US-based non-profit organisation, PATH, donated a Covid fast-testing machine (ID Now) to the district hospital here today.

Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu, after inaugurating the machine, said it would be beneficial in providing confirmatory results within six-thirteen minutes. It had a capacity to conduct 30 tests a day. The hospital would come in handy in testing emergency and IPD samples at a time when there is high demand for testing of critical patients, he added.

Sidhu said it was an RT-PCR-based portable machine which could easily be taken to villages for testing.

Sidhu appreciated PATH’s initiative in donating this technology as part of their support to the state of Punjab under the project, “Improving Access to COVID-19 Testing in India”.

Lauding the commendable efforts being made by the healthcare workers, Sidhu said medical and para-medical staff had been working endlessly in providing essential Covid-19 medical services since last year. He also motivated them to keep up the good work with passion to save the precious lives of Covid patients.