Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday said that Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram at Kerala has offered to set up its modern laboratory in Haryana where tests of all kind of diseases could be conducted under one roof.
This offer was made by a team of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, led by its Director, Professor M Radhakrishna Pillai as they called on Vij here.
During the meeting, Professor Pillai said that Haryana was among the few states which have been selected for the setting up of such modern laboratories where investigation of various diseases related to the fields of molecular biology, proteomics and biological sciences would be done.
He also offered to provide services of the Centre for treatment of viral infection, cancer, and heart diseases.
Vij informed Pillai that facility of DNA tests would also be available at the Molecular Diagnostic laboratory to be set up in the state. Apart from this, tests for Oak Ion Protein, ABI DNA Sequencer and Tissue Culture would also be conducted by this laboratory.
Also, there is a proposal to set up Heart Artery Genomics lab in this laboratory in which Ischemic heart disease, Brugada syndrome, Cardiomyopathy would be diagnosed.
The Health Minister said that he was of the view that such laboratories should be set up in the state so that the patients could be largely benefitted. He added that with the setting up of such laboratories, there would be no
need to send the samples of patients outside the
State for tests.