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The Health section is bringing unneurotic and connecting each the authorities laboratories crossed Kerala successful a azygous diagnostic network, Nirnaya, which volition relation arsenic a hub-and-spoke exemplary truthful that broad diagnostic services are delivered astatine the grassroots level.
The Nirnaya diagnostic services web was inaugurated by Health Minister Veena George present connected Thursday.
The facilities successful the authorities labs from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram and the services provided by these labs person been improved and interconnected successful a hub-and-spoke model. This would alteration citizens to entree diagnostic tests either escaped of outgo oregon astatine affordable rates, from the nearest laboratory successful their locality.
Ms. George described Nirnaya arsenic a revolutionary measurement successful Kerala’s diagnostic health-care history.
Seven categories
Laboratory services person been categorised nether 7 domains—basic laboratory tests, precocious laboratory tests, AMR (antimicrobial resistance) surveillance, metabolic screening, TB and crab screening, outbreak investigation, and infectious illness diagnosis and monitoring.
Through the Nirnaya network, each these laboratory services volition present beryllium disposable astatine the level of Family Health Centres, making Kerala the archetypal State successful the state to instrumentality specified an extended diagnostic services network, Ms. George claimed.
At present, astir 1,300 laboratories nether the Health section are portion of the Nirnaya project. These see implicit 200 ‘hub’ labs and astir 1,100 ‘spoke’ labs crossed assorted districts.
Test results are accessible done the State government’s e-Health portal, via SMS, and connected the meHealth mobile app. The Health section is joining hands with India Post work successful implementing this project.
Even precocious tests tin present beryllium done astatine the level of Family Health Centres and Primary Health Centres, without patients having to question to distant hub labs. Patients tin frankincense avail themselves of high-quality diagnostic services astatine minimal cost, portion ensuring adherence to prime standards.
Results are delivered promptly astatine the aforesaid wellness centres wherever the samples were collected and simultaneously sent via verified registered mobile numbers arsenic SMS alerts.
The strategy enables timely attraction based connected close diagnostic results, thereby reducing patients’ out-of-pocket costs. Nirnaya marks a important milestone successful realising broad wellness sum envisioned nether the Nava Kerala Mission and the Aardram Mission, Ms. George said.
