IMPHAL, June 6: The Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD)
on Friday handed over one Real
Time (RT) PCR equipment to
Mizoram to facilitate COVID19 tests at the Zoram Medical
College in Aizawl.
The IBSD is a national institute operating under the
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India,
which is located near Imphal.
According to a press release, the testing equipment,
along with other consumables,
were flown to the Mizoram
capital from here in a helicopter arranged by the Mizoram
Government.
The consignment was handed over to the
Department of Science and
Technology, Mizoram Government, by scientists and
staff of the Aizawl centre of
the IBSD.
RT-PCR constitutes accurate
laboratory methods for detecting, tracking and studying the
novel coronavirus. The equipment, along with the consumable items, have been lent to
Mizoram at the request of the
Government of Mizoram and
the Zoram Medical College.
The IBSD, under the guidance of its Director, Prof Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, is
supporting COVID-19 testing
facilities in the two premier
medical institutes, Regional
Institute of Medical Sciences
(RIMS) and Jawaharlal Nehru
Institute of Medical Sciences
(JNIMS) in Manipur.
The IBSD, Imphal, has also
lent one RT PCR and RNA
extraction equipment to the
RIMS, Imphal to reduce the
testing load at its testing centre, in the first week of May.
Earlier, at the request of
the JNIMS authorities, an RT
PCR instrument, along with
consumables, were provided
by the IBSD to supplement
the existing functioning of the
VRDL, Microbiology Department of JNIMS.
The IBSD was established
in 2001. It has centres at Shillong, Gangtok and Aizawl. ~Assam Tribune
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