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India: GeneXpert is now available free of cost for pediatric TB patients in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata

TB project
Nov. 24, 2015, 3:10 p.m.

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


For detailed information, click here and here.