One challenge for many laboratories in ramping up is the shortage of trained manpower for collecting samples, report Sohini Das, Vinay Umarji and Virendra Singh Rawat. IMAGE: A health worker......
The testing rate is likely to slow down, report Pavan Lall and Sohini Das. IMAGE: A man reacts as a doctor takes a swab from his nose to test at Mukund Nagar in Mumbai's Dharavi area.......
Most feel as the movement of people normalises, the in-patient volumes in hospitals will grow and by the end of May, occupancy should be around 50 per cent, and 75 per cent over a period of time.......
While there is a shortage of testing kits, manpower and capacities, India does not have other scalable testing options, report Vinay Umarji and Sohini Das. IMAGE: A medical worker collects the......
'India is too large a place to have just 10 labs performing these Covid-19 tests.' IMAGE: An isolation ward in a Hyderabad hospital. Photograph: PTI Photo Representatives from three companies,......
Leading diagnostic chain, Dr Lal Pathlabs, is eyeing acquisitions in western and southern India.It has laid out an ambitious plan to scale up operations and has earmarked Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5......
The Budget 2013 will be placed in the Parliament on February 28. Though the Budget this year is expected to be exceptionally austere, the corporate honchos have dished out their wishlist. Here are......
Fortis Healthcare Chairman Malvinder Mohan Singh on Wednesday said it planned to launch an IPO for its diagnostics business unit, Super Religare Laboratories (SRL), in 2011. SRL had acquired the......
Drug major Cipla on Tuesday said it has launched drone-powered deliveries of critical medicines – cardiac, respiratory and other essential chronic therapies – to hospitals and......
Their offer values Fortis at over Rs 9,000 crore, or around Rs 172 per share. The takeover saga at Fortis Healthcare, one of India’s leading healthcare chains, reached the culmination on......