Ratlam: District hospital in Ratlam will soon be equipped with the CB-NAAT (or Cartridge based Nucleic acid Amplification Test) machine for the primary testing of the sample of the COVID-19.
District collector Ruchika Chouhan informed that primarily this machine will ascertain whether the sample may be positive or negative. Only those samples which are likely to be positive will be sent to COVID-19 laboratory of the Government Medical College (GMC).
Installation of this machine will speed up the testing of the likely positive samples at the GMC Laboratory. This machine is expected to be installed within next one week at district hospital.
Beside, 50 oxygen support beds will also be available at the district hospital, collector added.
So far, over 2,400 samples of COVID-19 suspects have been processed in the district and 87 of them tested positive for COVID-19 which about 3.6 per cent. When it comes to fatality ratio, four persons have been died so far and it is about 4.6 per cent of total number of affect persons in the district.
