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Time of India
03-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Covid lab at MMCH to reopen after 3 years
Daltonganj: The virology and Covid laboratory at the Medinirai Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) here will be revived in the next fortnight amid rising Covid cases in the state. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Set up during the pandemic Covid 19 at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore, the lab tested close to 1,500 samples daily when cases peaked in Jharkhand. However, it was shut down after a memorandum of understanding with an NGO expired while the pandemic was on the wane. MMCH principal Dr P N Mahto and Palamu civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar jointly inspected the lab on Monday after the state health department asked all districts to step up its preparedness. "The equipment is safe and requires only servicing. Other facilities like electricity, water supply too are not an issue," Mahto said. "We are planning to restart the lab within 15 days," he added. Mahto and Kumar also discussed the prospect of setting up a separate outpatient department (OPD) for attending to patients with influenza like illnesses and severely acute respiratory infections, considered the early symptoms for suspected Covid 19 patients. Kumar said all the hospital staff have been directed to document the names and contact numbers with such symptoms. "There is no shortage of PPE kits and medicines," he said.
Time of India
13-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Palamu health centres stop distribution of 38L calcium and vitamin D3 tablets
Daltonganj: People going to the govt-run health centres in Palamu district would no longer be given calcium (500mg) and vitamin D3 (205 IU) tablets that were procured in the 2024-25 financial year as these were found "not of standard quality", officials at the district health department said on Tuesday. A Jamshedpur-based pharmaceutical company had supplied over 38 lakh tablets of calcium (500mg) and vitamin D3 (205 IU) to the Palamu district health department for the Medinirai Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), sub-divisional hospitals, community health centres, and sub-health centres located in the district under the National Health Mission (NHM). The firm had produced a 'certificate of analysis' issued by the Oxigen Analytical Laboratories, Himachal Pradesh, a govt-approved test house, declaring these two medicines as of "standard quality".However, Palamu civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar said, "The drug inspector tested samples of these two medicines in Central Drugs Laboratory, Kolkata, and the results 'did not meet the standard quality'. Instructions were issued to all govt health centres in the district to immediately stop the distribution of these two medicines among the patients. "The Jamshedpur-based firm, in its letter to the health department, agreed to replace calcium, and vitamin D3 tablets totalling 2,96,400, 2,96,400, and the 2,92,200 of the GTL 1258, 1288, and 1296 batches, respectively, he about another 14 batches of these two medicines that did not meet the standard quality, the civil surgeon said, "The pharmaceuticals distribution company is legally bound to replace the tablets of all the 17 batches identified in the test."Dr Kumar said, "The solubility of these two medicines doesn't conform to the set standards. The entire exercise for analysis, quality assurance, and test report of these two medicines was completed in a little over 100 days, beginning January."Asked if any action would be taken against the distribution company, Dr Kumar said, "The matter has been reported to the NHM director and the director of medicine of the state medicine control directorate, Ranchi."
