The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research has established 50 COVID-19 molecular labs in north India.
Carrying forward the mandate as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ to mentor all government and private medical colleges in the catchment areas to create state-of-art molecular virology setups, PGIMER covered various labs and medical colleges of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Leh Ladakh under the programme.
The total facilities included 16 government medical colleges, 8 government civil hospitals and 11 private medical colleges, 7 defence labs and 4 state testing facilities across the northern region. This also included DBT Labs like IISER Mohali. Also, additional testing facilities have been established in GADVASU Ludhiana, NRDDL Jalandhar, Punjab Biotechnology incubator and Central Forensic Laboratory Mohali.
Prof Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER congratulated Dr Mini P Singh, Professor, Department of Virology, PGIMER, the Principal Coordinator for the mentoring institutes, for establishing this facility.