This story is from September 15, 2020

Noida: In four months, 1 lakh Covid tests at Child PGI

The Super Speciality Paediatric Hospital and Post Graduate Teaching Institute (SSPHPGTI) in Sector 30, also known as Child PGI, has conducted more than one lakh tests since it started examining samples for Covid-19 from May 14.
Noida: In four months, 1 lakh Covid tests at Child PGI
It is the second Covid hospital Gautam Buddh Nagar which completed one lakh tests
NOIDA: The Super Speciality Paediatric Hospital and Post Graduate Teaching Institute (SSPHPGTI) in Sector 30, also known as Child PGI, has conducted more than one lakh tests since it started examining samples for Covid-19 from May 14.
It is the second Covid hospital in the district after the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida, which completed one lakh tests earlier on August 31.
GIMS started testing on April 15.
While both the facilities test samples coming in from other districts, especially western UP (Kanpur Dehat and NCR regions), they have a dedicated team of 10-12 technicians in the laboratories where results are being declared within 24 hours of getting the samples.
“We have completed over one lakh (1,01,681) tests till date (Monday). Most of the tests were on samples that came in from other districts, even from faraway places like Kanpur Dehat,” said Dr DK Gupta, the director, Child PGI.
Dr BP Singh, the emergency medical officer, SSPHPGTI, said: “We started doing RT-PCR tests on May 14 and are currently conducting more than 1,800 tests per day. We also conduct TrueNat tests.”
While talking about GIMS, Brigadier (rtd) Dr RK Gupta, director of the institute said: “We completed one lakh RT-PCR tests on August 31. The number is from April 15 when we began testing. The number includes multiple tests conducted on a single person and tests on samples from other districts, like Ghaziabad, Kasganj, Hapur, Firozabad, Bulandshahr as well as Faridabad and Delhi apart from GB Nagar".
He added that currently, GIMS is testing about 2,000 samples daily.
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