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Bangalore will get virology testing lab
Pune's NIV asks Karnataka not to send any more blood samples.
Ramadoss is slated to visit Bangalore soon after the Parliament session and has asked the state health ministry to scout for a hospital with some adjunct vacant land for setting up the lab.
State health minister R Ashok told the Sunday Times of India, "It will probably be housed at NIMHANS or Bowring Hospital.
Dr Ramadoss has communicated to the state that Bangalore will have the testing lab, this is after I requested him for such a facility after the chikungunya outbreak."
The exclusive lab, only third in the country, has tentatively been christened Virology Research Centre, he said. With no lab nearby, Karnataka now has to send all blood samples to the National Institute of Virology, Pune.
The institute is burdened with so many samples that it has asked the government not to send any more. Over a lakh samples are still pending testing at NIV.
The logical corollary is that patients with the virus are being given treatment with stop-gap medicines and are being advised only rest.
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