Govind Sharma
JAMMU, Mar 9: At a time when even Government primary health centres and small private nursing homes have basic laboratory tests facility, there is no such facility available in Chest Disease (CD) Hospital Jammu as the only laboratory of the Hospital has been lying closed for last more than one year.
Official sources told Excelsior that following outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic in the Union Territory in February last year, all except one technician of the only laboratory of the Hospital was shifted to Microbiology Laboratory of Government Medical College Jammu in the month of April to help Microbiology Department in terms of manpower to conduct RTPCR based COVID testing.