Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 24: In its endeavour to strength the COVID-19 testing facilities in Ladakh Union Territory and promptly acting on the call of Director Health, Ladakh, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM), Jammu today airlifted COVID testing machines to Leh and Kargil.
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The high end machines were airlifted to Leh and Kargil with the help of Air force Jammu to augment the existing COVID-19 testing facilities at both the places.
Since the road link from Jammu to Leh is presently closed, thus in view of upsurge in the COVID cases and burden on testing, CSIR-IIIM, Indian Air Force jointly managed to deliver these equipment at Leh and Kargil which would no doubt would increase the daily testing capacities there.
Pertinently, earlier the Sun Pharma & HAL as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CSIR jointly provided infrastructural and technical manpower support to the Ladakh UT for COVID testing.
According to a press handout, issued here, Dr D Srinivasa Reddy, Director CSIR-IIIM today handed over these equipment to Mohd Yusuf, an Officer of Ladakh UT Govt for onward airlifting to Leh and Kargil and this was done by the timely support of AOC Air Commodore, AS Pathania and COO Group Captain, Sandeep Singh.
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