India: GeneXpert is now available free of cost for pediatric TB patients in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata
Any pediatrician both in public and private sector in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata can send pediatric (pulmonary and extrapulmonary) samples to one of the laboratories listed below, and get a GeneXpert TB test done free of cost. The specimen will be tested on the same day and the results communicated to the referring provider electronically (e-mail and SMS) and at the same time notified to the Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP) under Nikshay.
Here is the list of the laboratories:
NDTBC Delhi:
New Delhi Tuberculosis
Centre,
Jawaharlal Nehru Marg,
Delhi Gate,
New
Delhi – 110002
Contact No: 9899249176; 9990084944
NIRT Chennai:
National Institute for
Research in Tuberculosis,
(formerly Tuberculosis Research
Center)
No.1, Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetput,
Chennai-600
031
Contact No: +91-9884408955
IRL Hyderabad:
CBNAAT Lab
State TB Demonstration &
Training Centre
Irramnuma, Beside Govt. General & Chest
Hospital,
S.R Nagar, Hyderabad-500038
Contact No:
+91-9985066444; +91-9160729988; +91-8886004786; +91-966632089
IRL Kolkata:
Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Kolkata
2nd
Floor of Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute for Paediatric
Science,
38, Badan Roy Lane, Kolkata-700010
(Behind
Beleghata ID Hospital Emergency Gate)
Contact No: Lab
Coordinator, Mob : +91-9831282429
