Trial phase of Illumina Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) also known as Venom Sequencing machine has begun in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur. Testing facility is expected to begin by the end of January 2021. It is the first ever machine in state of Chhattisgarh.Professor Nitin M Nagarkar, Director of AIIMS informed that Next Generation Sequencing machine has reached Lab of AIIMS. At present it is in trial face and soon it would be used by the doctors for research and clinical purpose. It has been installed at Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory of AIIMS. At present same machine is present in VRD lab of Pune, where samples are sent for testing from all over the country. It is used for detection of all types of Cancer, Research purpose, to study molecular study of virus. Detection of second stream of Corona would be possible with the help of the machine. It will help the doctors in studying behavioral change of virus on different persons. Dr Nagarkar further informed that NGS has rapidly become the state of the art for high-throughput genomic analyses. The robust technology provides access to numerous applications ranging from genomic sequencing, re-sequencing, whole-transcriptome analysis, small RNA, miRNA, non-coding RNA, targeted sequencing, Chip-seq and ATAC-seq. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is an important biological macromolecule that is present in all biological cells. Using a massively parallel sequencing approach, NGS is capable of generating gigabases of high quality sequence, maximizing throughput while minimizing the cost and time to generate this data. The cost of machine is about Rs 1.25 Crores.Dr Nagarkar informed that as per schedule the machine has arrived and has been started on trial face. VRD lab of AIIMS was
Tag: Nagarkar
-
Four ICU beds added in Neurosurgery Ward
Four dedicated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds have been added in Neurosurgery ward of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur with additional state of the art facilities. Professor Dr Nitin M Nagarkar, Director of AIIMS inaugurated the new ICU ward in the department. The capacity has been enhanced for better care of critical patient’s. ICU department is now ready to serve the severely ill patients with new facilities. Dr Anil K Sharma, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery informed that new ICU beds will have five ventilators, 10 cardiac monitors, and 6 DVT pumps along with ECG facility in the department. The department has witnessed a surge in patients since last year. Patients suffering from brain tumour, brain haemorrhage, spinal fixation, and frontal hematoma are major cases the department is dealing with. On an average 40 patients visit Out Patient Department (OPD) on a daily basis. Some of them need urgent surgery. New Facility will be helpful to provide much-needed support to the patients. The department already has 33 beds in the ward. Dr Prashant, Dr Nitish Nayak, Dr Surendra and Dr Charandeep were also present during the inauguration programme.