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Viral load lab for advance HIV testing at RUIA Hospital soon
SVRR Government General Hospital, popularly known as Ruia Hospital, will soon have a new laboratory to implement viral load testing for monitoring anti-retroviral treatment for early diagnosis of treatment failure which will be helpful for HIV patients.
Tirupati: SVRR Government General Hospital, popularly known as Ruia Hospital, will soon have a new laboratory to implement viral load testing for monitoring anti-retroviral treatment for early diagnosis of treatment failure which will be helpful for HIV patients.
This will be established under national policy on ‘Test and Treat’ by the ‘Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) an US-based institute having its office in New Delhi is partnering with National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) to strategise the national Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) roll out.
The Consul General in Hyderabad, Katherine Hadda, who visited the Ruia Hospital Blood Bank here on Wednesday, said that 70 new viral load labs will be established across the country and Ruia Hospital is one among them. This test gives the information on how well the ART is controlling the virus.
Notable achievements have been made so far in the areas of HIV prevention, care and treatment, workforce development, blood safety, laboratory system strengthening and ISO accreditation through this collaborative effort, Hadda said. The idea is to strengthen programme interventions across the HIV cascade with a focus on hidden and hard to reach key population.
The model blood bank at the Ruia Hospital is one of the 26 regional training centres under the NACO programme. It is providing training for doctors, staff nurses and technicians working in the blood banks of 6 districts in AP. To extend this training further, the ‘Interactive Webinar for Training Blood Banks Linked to Model Blood Bank’ was inaugurated by Katherine Hadda.
She said that it will help reach out to an increasing number of blood bank staff, in the shortest possible time. She also made it clear that the HIV State Reference Lab at the SV Medical College will continue to receive technical assistance under this collaboration in order to improve the quality of lab testing and work towards ISO accreditation.
Dr Chaitanya Kumar, Joint Director of AP State Aids Control Society (APSACS) spoke on quality management system in blood bank in the webinar. Dr Sunitha Upadhyaya of CDC, SV Medical College Principal Dr NV Ramanaiah, Ruia Hospital Superintendent Dr B Sidda Naik, Dr Ramesh Reddy Allam of SHARE India, HoD of Pathology Prof Dr Anuradha and Ruia Hospital RMO Dr U Sri Hari were present.
