The Viral Research & Diagnostic Lab (VRDL) set up in the Palamu medical college with a cost of Rs 2.5 crore will be inaugurated online by the Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday.
DC Palamu Shashi Ranjan, who inspected this medical college on Monday said, “Chief Minister will do online inauguration of this lab here on Wednesday. This lab will prove a milestone in maintenance and safety of public health. It comes as a shot in the arm of the medical fraternity.”
The DC also inspected administrative building and departments of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and hostel with his battery of officials like DDC S Jamuar, Nazareth deputy collector Shailesh Kr Singh, district social welfare officer Aftab Alam, civil surgeon John F Kennedy, principal cum dean of Palamu medical college Jyoti Ranjan Prasad and others.
Sources said this VRDL has been set up by Prejha foundation (PAN IIT Alumni Reach for Jharkhand Foundation), which in May month this year reached an MoU with Jharkhand State Medical & Health Infrastructure Development & Procurement Corporation Ltd Namkum.
Sources said it will take a few more weeks from now when this lab will start testing samples for Covid 19. Sources said an NoC is to be obtained for start of testing of the samples here in this lab.
Sources said RIMS Ranchi will send here ‘controlled samples’ which will be tested here and then its findings will be sent back to RIMS Ranchi and when the findings of this lab match with the findings of the RIMs Ranchi everything then will be seen as all fine and going for testing to be done.
For obtaining NoC the role of ICMR Delhi is equally most important and it is to be obtained also.
Principal of this college Jyoti Ranjan Prasad said it is a standard procedure and the team of Prejha Foundation is right up to it.
Sources said AIIMs Raipur is the chief mentor of this VRDL and RIMs Ranchi is the secondary mentor of this lab here all for quality and flawless testing of samples for covid 19.
The DC said the lab claims to do 1000 tests a day and we look forward to a flawless testing of it first.