WHO made RT-PCR kit in India to test monkeypox, ready in 15 days, will give result in just these many minutes…

New Delhi: – The World Health Organization declared Mpox or Monkeypox a global public health emergency on August 14. This was the second time in the last two years that this disease was declared a health emergency. The new strain of this virus is more contagious than the previous strain and its mortality rate is also higher.
Within 15 days of monkeypox being declared a public emergency, India has developed an RT-PCR kit to test this infection. The name of this kit is IMDX Monkeypox Detection RT-PCR Assay and it has been prepared by Siemens Healthineers. According to the company, this kit will give test results in just 40 minutes. This kit has also been given clinical recognition by ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune. The Central Protection Drugs Standard Control Organization has approved the manufacture of this kit.
The kit will give fast resultsHariharan Subramanian, MD, Siemens Healthcare Pvt Ltd said that the need for accurate and correct diagnostics has never been as important as it is today. This kit will give results in just 40 minutes, which is much faster than traditional methods that give results in 1-2 hours. With the help of this kit, the time taken to detect monkeypox will also be reduced, which will also speed up treatment. The IMDX Monkeypox RTPCR kit has been made under Indian statutory guidelines and is as per global standards.
Siemens can make 1 million kits in a yearSiemens Healthcare Private Limited has said that this RT-PCR kit will be made in the company's molecular diagnostics manufacturing unit located in Vadodara. This unit has the capacity to make 10 lakh kits in a year. The factory is ready to make these RT-PCR kits available.

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