SANJAY MATHUR: Nigeria’s COVID-19 Testing Is Less Than 120 Tests Per Million via thisdaylive
believes in the Nigerian project and has vast knowledge of the corporate world and the business of healthcare. As the Managing Director of VCare Diagnostics Limited, Mr. Mathur seems to hold the aces in helping Africa’s most populous nation successfully contain the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. The VCare MD says the healthcare firm will address the immediate gap of about 40% diagnostics test which are currently outsourced to labs around the world. In this interview, Mr.
Apart from investing heavily in the latest technology and equipment, we also invested in quality manpower. Our lab is headed by Dr. Aramide Kolawale, who is the Lab Director, and our Quality Assurance Unit is led by Mr. Abiola Adejumobi. We also use cloud-based technology where all machines are connected to a cloud and we can, on a real-time basis, seek help from experts through our technology partners, Techmed Healthcare, India, an ISO 15189 and NABL accredited company.
Our products are basically the same, except that we have newer and more compact models. For instance, our BIONEER product has an automated RNA extraction component called ExiPrepTM 48A Dx that allows for faster results before amplification and detection using ExicyclerTM 96. BIONEER platform has the advantage of being small, portable and the number of tests it can do per hour.
Capacity is a big issue for developing countries. How can this be scaled up to meet the current national emergency in Nigeria? Synchronized lockdown is being practised the world over to contain the spread of the virus because it is essential to breaking of the spread of the virus. Hence lockdown is necessary. However, this cannot take away the fact that testing for COVID-19 must be the major focus as the majority of people with COVID-19 will have no symptoms. The danger lies with the demography of people who are asymptomatic.
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