Coimbatore: Coimbatore Metropolis Healthcare Ltd. gets approval for COVID-19 testing from ICMR.
Coimbatore: Coimbatore Metropolis Healthcare Ltd. gets approval for COVID-19 testing from ICMR.
With an aim to provide end-to-end testing solutions, one of India’s leading and renowned diagnostic companies, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd. has begun testing for COVID-19. The Metropolis lab in Coimbatore has recently received the ICMR and NABL approval and has been conducting tests for more than 10 years at its lab in Coimbatore.Additionally, Metropolis has seven other labs in the country that have already been approved for COVID-19 testing and are located in Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, and Bangalore.
Sharing her views regarding this, Dr. Anita Suryanaryanan, Vice President, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd. said, “In addition to Chennai, we are happy to announce that we now have also begun testing for COVID-19 using TrueNat technology at the Coimbatore lab. Metropolis has been at the forefront of this pandemic since day one conducting thousands of tests across our eight COVID capable labs. A warm patient-centric approach, technological superiority, and reliable diagnostic reports have made Metropolis one of the preferred labs which has been further proved in this pandemic."
How does TrueNat work?
RT PCR or reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction is a method that includes capturing specific genes from the extracted RNA from the sample. A small part of specific RNA is converted to DNA, and then it is amplified to a large amount through a series of chemical processes. TrueNat is a chip-based, battery-operated RT-PCR kit. The new TrueNat machines are equipped to detect the E genes and RdRp genes separately from the virus RNA, and hence these tests are treated as a confirmation for the presence of the novel coronavirus.
The lab is situated in Cowley Brown road, R.S. Puram.