BHU's VRD lab gets NABL accreditation
Prof Gopal Nath, principal investigator, said that the laboratory conducted around 9 lakh tests during the Covid-19 pandemic and carried out around 8,000 tests of dengue, Covid, Japanese encephalitis, and others in the past one-and-a-half years. He credited the contribution of Prof Pradyot Prakash (Co-Principal Investigator), and the entire scientific and technical team, for this accomplishment. The team comprises Dr Sudhir Kumar Singh, Dr Alka Shukla, Dr Manoj Kumar, Dr Mayank Gangwar, Deepak Kumar, Sonam Rastogi, Digvijay Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Ashish R.
Singh, and Ajay Kumar. Prof SN Sankhwar, director, Institute of Medical Sciences, expressed happiness over NABL accreditation. tnn
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