Madurai lab tops state in Covid-testing
Padmini.Sivarajah@timesgroup.com
15.07.2021
The virology lab at Madurai Medical College has performed 17.65 lakh RTPCR tests, the highest among all government medical college labs in the state. The government medical college labs in Chennai, including KMC, MMC, Stanley Medical College and Omandurar Medical college, together tested around 17 lakh samples.
Associate professor and lab incharge Dr C Sugumari said the lab with a staff of about100 , including 65 doctors and paramedics besides 45 data entry operators, has been operating round-the-clock since March 2020. With nine RT-PCR testing machines and five RNA extractors, the lab was able to undertake about 12,000 to 15,000 tests daily. During the first wave, they had done about 8,000 tests a day, which was the highest, but in the second wave the sample load gradually increased from11,000 to as many as15,801 a day in June.
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