NCDC office likely in Tukapally

Hyderabad: The five-member team from the National Centre for Disease Control (

NCDC

) met the senior officials of the state government including chief secretary and health officials on Thursday.

Discussions were held during the meeting over the setting up of a local office in the city and the team is learnt to have chosen a site in Genome Valley in Tukapally.

The team including Dr KL Ramesh, Dr Shikha Vardhan from NCDC, Dr Pranay Verma from Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), Dr Dhara Shah from NCDC and Rajeev Kanaujia, senior architect from Central Design Bureau (CDB), New Delhi, had visited three sites offered by the state government on Wednesday and chose the Turkapally site.

The team will also be submitting a report to the Centre on their return.