HONOURABLE MINISTER HEALTH & FW INAUGURATING THE FIELD UNIT OF RMRC
On this occasion were present, Sri. Lalbihari Himirika, Hoourable minister SC & ST development, Sri. Rammurti Mutika, MLA Gunupur, Sri. Arun Baroka, IAS Sr. DDG and Chief Vigilance officer ICMR, Sri. Dutta, Sr. DDG, ICMR, and other diginitaries.
The RMRC centre had already received more than 300 samples from different parts of south orissa. All the samples, except those from Gajapati district tested negative for vibrio cholerae. Sri. Shantanu Kar, Director RMRC and his colleagues, who have done extensive research in this field, explained in detail the functioning of the RMRC field unit in Rayagada to the dignitaries.
RMRC SCIENTISTS EXPLAINING THE SAMPLE TESTS
During the course of its trial runs the RMTC field unit could detect the presence of cholera organisms in the water samples and rectal swabs from the Mohona area of the neighbouring district of Gajapati district and the district administration was alerted in time and a possible outbreak was avoided not only in the district but also in the entire south Orissa. The prupose of setting up a field unit of RMRC was thus served and seen in the trial runs itself. As of now the RMRC field unit is run in a small room of the DHH, however the district administration has already selected an incomplete structure of the DHH to be used as a full fledged RMRC field centre, which can subsequently take up analysis of the culture and sensitivity for Malaria and MDR TB samples also.
POSITIVE SAMPLE FOR CHOLERA FROM MOHONA GAJAPATI DISTRICT
ANOTHER POSTIVE SAMPLE FOR CHOLERA
