The Metropolis Healthcare Ltd has built a dedicated COVID-19 testing laboratory in Thane, Maharashtra which has now been approved by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and accredited by the National accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).
In addition to its lab in Mumbai and in Pune, this third dedicated facility in the state will now increase its testing capacity to conduct COVID-19 tests. The daily capacity of all the three labs put together stands at 4,000 now.
Ameera Shah, promoter and managing director, said, “COVID-19 testing needs to increase exponentially and, to meet the needs of the state, we have added this laboratory with an enhanced capacity. Four of our labs across India are ICMR approved. Our only focus in such times is to support the local government and municipal authorities to increase the number of tests conducted each day in order to fight this pandemic.”
It has become one of the first laboratories to be approved by ICMR for COVID-19 testing and has been at the forefront since day one.
