Mobile clinic: India’s first Biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) containment mobile laboratory was displayed at the 2nd G20 Health Working Group Meeting at Panaji in Goa on Monday. Termed as Rapid Action Mobile BSL3+ Advanced Augmented Network (RAMBAAN), the mobile clinic initiative is State of the Art Health Infrastructure for Pandemic Preparedness.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the mobile laboratory has been set as much as examine newly rising and re-emerging viral infections which are extremely infectious and of deadly potential to human beings. The mobile laboratory gives a public well being resolution to this downside. It will be merely pushed round to varied areas, similar to a traditional bus.
This laboratory will be capable to entry distant and forested areas of the nation the place specifically educated scientists from ICMR can examine outbreaks utilizing samples from people and animal sources. These actions will guarantee well timed and on-site prognosis with a speedy turnaround time for reporting these outbreaks.
BSL-3 laboratories to assist in prognosis
The Union Health Ministry stated the prevailing infrastructure of BSL-3 laboratories is fastened and depending on transporting samples from close to and much areas, typically resulting in delays in prognosis.
In view of repeated outbreaks of extremely infectious pathogens like Nipah, Zika, Avian influenza and now COVID, it’s vital to have the ability to detect rising epidemics or pandemics at a really early stage to allow fast containment and forestall unfold.
UNICEF hails India’s mobile clinic initiative
Hailing India’s adoption of digital well being companies and novel strategies for making certain healthcare entry in distant areas, a high UNICEF official stated classes learnt from the nation on mobile clinics to mitigate transport obstacles will be utilized to insurgency-prone areas. Speaking to the media, Dr Lakshmi Narasimhan Balaji, Senior Adviser Health, UNICEF-New York, stated that India has efficiently carried out numerous mobile well being initiatives, together with routine immunisation of kids.
“These mobile clinics were essential in providing traditional healthcare services in areas where access to healthcare facilities is low due to challenges of geography, climate, or recurring natural disasters. Mobile health clinics are also an effective way of mitigating transport barriers in many communities,” Balaji added.
It ought to be talked about right here that the lab is managed by way of an clever management automation system, which maintains the working setting beneath damaging air stress, maintains tools parameters and data all essential information.
(With inputs from companies)
