Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 16: The administration in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has failed to fix the rates of COVID test.
This was stated by Balvinder Singh, Social Activist while addressing a press conference.
Singh said that almost all the States including Delhi, Haryana and Maharashtra have announced a cap on COVID-19 RT-PCR test rates ranging from Rs 2200 to Rs 2400 but now after the availability of test kits at Rs 450, these Governments are also considering to further slash down the rates soon.
“Administration in UT Jammu and Kashmir and particularly the Health Department has shown a scant respect to the miseries of the peoples who are being charged Rs 4500 per COVID test by some labs in Jammu. Even after lapse of around four months of Coronavirus spread in UT, the Government has not fixed the rates of COVID test”, Singh added.
During the press conference, Singh showed an order copy issued to South Kourean Company by Jammu Kashmir Medical Supply Corporation where 25,000 antigen rapid test kits for COVID has been purchased at Rs 450 per test and to a surprise these test are been conducted between Rs 2500 to Rs 4500 by private labs in Jammu.
Keeping in view of the rate of the test kit supplied by the company at Rs 450, the test rate should not be more than Rs 1000 in the private labs, he said and appealed to the Union Government to solve all such irregularities.
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