Low-cost COVID -19 testing technology developed by IIT KHARAGPUR

Yash Sapra, INN/Delhi, @infodeaofficial

In the coronavirus pandemic, the countries are trying hard and are just words making and testing the vaccines and apart from the vaccines countries are also trying their hard to develop other Advanced technology medical which may help in the healing of the patients quickly. So in this major breakthrough, the scientist of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)  Kharagpur in  West Midnapore district claimed to have developed a new unique medical device to conduct the COVID test within one hour and at a cost of only rupees 400 per test.

Sources at IIT informed here today that when hundreds of scientists across the globe had been working round the clock to develop the coronavirus vaccine at the earliest, a group of Unsung engineers at Kharagpur IIT had developed a unique small device conduct test of the virus and too at a minimum cost with early results. According to early reports, a small team of  IIT professors and students had recently developed the testing kit/ machine and so far claimed to have found 100% Success in all their tests in this machine which itself cost about Rs2000 only. we have already applied for its patent to the union government following intensive Research and test and are awaiting and early response they also stated and claimed that if introduced it would open a new Vista in the identification and test of a large number of poor asymptomatic. COVID patients besides creating a new window of opportunity in the countries medical history because of the vest low cost of testing. The Result of the test would be available on the patient’s mobile phone also they claimed. Currently, each patient is required to play at least ₹2900 For each such test along with some incidental charges in West Bengal,  even last month every hospital and testing lab used the charge to the tune of ₹4500 for each coronavirus test. This is a really great idea for supporting the backward sections of the society and the government and if the supply of this device increased drastically within the country then it will also open the doors of export for the country which can also somewhere become a source of income for the country and can also somewhat contribute to the country’s financial status. Indeed this pandemic brought a slump to the market but at the same time, we can also say that it helped us for or develop our medical facilities and technologies.