OREANDA-NEWS. The Department of Health Research (DHR) has rolled out a scheme in September, 2013   on “Establishment of a network of Laboratories for Managing Epidemics and Natural Calamities”. Under the scheme, 4 Regional Labs, 6 State Level Labs and 14 Medical College labs have been established.  The State/UT wise list of such labs is given below:

List of Viral Diagnostic Research Labs sanctioned in the states/UTs

S. No.

State/ UTs

Name of the medical college / institution

 

I.

 

REGIONAL LABS

1

Chandigarh

PGIMER, Chandigarh

2

Assam

Regional Medical Research Center, Dibrugarh

3

Madhya Pradesh

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal

4

West Bengal

National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata

II.

 

STATE LEVEL LABS

1

Himachal Pradesh

Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla

2

Jammu & Kashmir

Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar

3

Gujarat

B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad

4

Meghalaya

North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong

5

Karnataka

Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru

6

Assam

Guwahati Medical College, Assam

III.

 

MEDICAL COLLEGE LEVEL LABS

1

Jammu & Kashmir

Govt. Medical College, Jammu

2

Telengana

Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

3

Haryana

Pt. B. D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak

4

Punjab

Govt. Medical college, Amritsar

5.

Bihar

Patna Medical College, Patna

6.

Gujarat

M.P. Shah Medical College, Jamnagar

7.

Andhra Pradesh

S V Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati

8.

Andhra Pradesh

Siddharth Medical College, Vijayawada

9.

Odisha

Late Shri  B K Memorial Govt Medical College, Jagdalpur

10.

Himachal Pradesh

Dr Rajendra Prasad Govt Medical College, Tanda

11.

Karnataka

Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, Mysore

12.

Punjab

Govt. Medical College, Patiala

13.

Tamil Nadu

Madurai Medical College, Madurai

14.

Tamil Nadu

Govt Medical College, Theni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
Further, at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has established a field establishment namely National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Alappuzha, Kerala and a Viral Research & Diagnostic Laboratory at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram.

Following ICMR Institutes are also working on the various aspects of Vector Borne Diseases (VBDs) including existing and emerging and re-emerging VBDs including malaria, filariasis, leishmaniasis, Japanese encephalitis, dengue, chikungunya, etc. These Institutes are, namely, National Institute of Malaria Research (Delhi), National Institute of Virology (Pune), National Institute for Research in Tribal Health (Jabalpur), Vector Control Research Centre (Puducherry), Centre for Research in Medical Arthropodology (Madurai), Desert Medical Research Centre (Jodhpur), Regional Medical Research Centre (Bhubaneswar), Rajendra Memorial Research Institute in Medical Sciences (Patna) and Regional Medical Research Centre (Port Blair).

The above mentioned ICMR Institutes have a team of identified scientists who are a part of the Central Team deputed by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare(MOH&FW), depending upon the suspected etiology of the outbreak.

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) coordinates Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) launched in 2004 under which an outbreak surveillance and response Unit has been set up.  Under IDSP the Districts/States have been strengthened by providing additional manpower, training of identified Rapid Response Team (RRT) members for outbreak investigations, strengthening of laboratories for detection of epidemic prone diseases, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment for data entry, analysis and data transfer, and provision of funds for operationalization. This unit receives and compiles information on outbreaks on a weekly basis.