Chandigarh: Clinical lab diagnostic services come at stand still at Aam Aadmi Clinics in Punjab as the private firm roped in for conducting tests have stopped their services.
Krsnaa diagnostic Ltd, was conducting lab tests at 100 AACs opened in August 15 last year during the first phase. The lab diagnostic services were already in doldrums at other 400 AAC open on January 26 this year as department has not finalise the modality for carrying out clinical tests at these Aam Adami Clinics.
Therefore the district health department are struggling in conducting tests in the absence of dedicated lab diagnostic services.
They are conducting tests of AACs’s patients at nearby and already functioning health institutes, including district hospitals and sub-divisional hospitals.
Now, the civil surgeons are told to collect the samples from 100 AACs and process the same at nearby government labs till the alternative arrangements are made.
Suman Bali, the project director of Punjab Health Systems Corporation, has written a letter to director health services and directed him to instruct civil surgeons to made arrangements for test facilities.
The director health services also further directed district health departments to conduct tests at nearby government hospitals.
Confirming the development, Director Health Services, Dr Ranjeet Singh, said, “There were some conditions of the firms which were not acceptable. Therefore, the stopped services at AACs. Now we will manage with our own machinery.
Meanwhile, the state government would provide diagnostic services in these 100 AACs in the same manner it is already providing in 404 centres till new service provider is engaged .