On Saturday an Hyderabad-based company introduced a small real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) machine that can test different types of viruses.
The standalone device is portable and can be set up at any place. The device only takes around 30 minutes to conduct the test. It can test the respiratory diseases, other different viruses in the blood or gastrointestinal. The device has also been exhibited at BioAsia 2023.
The CEO of Huwel Lifesciences, Rachana Tripathi said, “we are situated in the Medical Devices Park, Hyderabad. We are manufacturers of diagnostic kits and instruments. We also have many licensed molecular diagnostic kits. This is a small real-time PCR machine with a POCT (point of care testing) kind of system. This can be used everywhere either in the physicians’ room, in hospitals or on fields wherever required. It does not require any specific environment or trained person to perform the test. The accuracy of the machine is as good as real-time PCR.”