<p>To open up more options and accelerate Covid-19 testing in Bengaluru, a quicker option is ready to be unveiled at the Kempegowda International Airport on Thursday - mobile van testing. The vans equipped with mobile laboratories can conduct up to 2,000 tests daily.</p>.<p>The test numbers can be scaled up to 3,300 in a day. This could be decisive in an airport that sees over 40,000 employees and thousands of domestic passengers despite the pandemic restrictions. The test results will be ready within four hours.</p>.<p>While the Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) has partnered with Tata Medical & Diagnostics Ltd (TMD) for the vans, the testing partner is Aster Lab. The tests will be done at government rates, according to the project partners.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/karnataka-faces-ramping-up-nightmare-for-possible-third-covid-19-wave-993107.html" target="_blank">Karnataka faces 'ramping up nightmare' for possible third Covid-19 wave</a></strong></p>.<p>Currently, eight such mobile laboratories are already in operation in the remote districts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. TMD has offered to work with governments and interested collaborators to build a fleet of 80 to 100 such mobile labs for districts.</p>.<p>This is in line with the mobile clinics launched by the state government in rural Karnataka to conduct tests at the doorstep for villagers. However, unlike the RT-PCR tests planned for KIA, only Rapid Antigen Tests are being conducted in these villages.</p>.<p>By the first half of May, the mobile clinics had covered over 900 villages and screened more than 32,000 people. Each mobile clinic is manned by a doctor, nurse, laboratory technician, and Asha and anganwadi workers.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>COV-AID@BLR at KIA </strong></p>.<p>For KIA, the mobile van testing complements the COV-AID@BLR, a 150-bed oxygenated Covid-19 treatment centre operationalised recently.</p>.<p>Located near the cargo terminals of the airport, this facility is open to the public and employees from the KIA ecosystem.</p>.<p>Patients can get admission at the centre by contacting nodal officers Sannappaiah: 9448116661 and Dr Sanjay: 9538279991.</p>.<p>The facility also takes in patients referred from other hospitals. The patients are required to produce their Aadhaar card, the prescription provided by the referral hospital and relevant medical documents.</p>
<p>To open up more options and accelerate Covid-19 testing in Bengaluru, a quicker option is ready to be unveiled at the Kempegowda International Airport on Thursday - mobile van testing. The vans equipped with mobile laboratories can conduct up to 2,000 tests daily.</p>.<p>The test numbers can be scaled up to 3,300 in a day. This could be decisive in an airport that sees over 40,000 employees and thousands of domestic passengers despite the pandemic restrictions. The test results will be ready within four hours.</p>.<p>While the Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) has partnered with Tata Medical & Diagnostics Ltd (TMD) for the vans, the testing partner is Aster Lab. The tests will be done at government rates, according to the project partners.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/karnataka-faces-ramping-up-nightmare-for-possible-third-covid-19-wave-993107.html" target="_blank">Karnataka faces 'ramping up nightmare' for possible third Covid-19 wave</a></strong></p>.<p>Currently, eight such mobile laboratories are already in operation in the remote districts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. TMD has offered to work with governments and interested collaborators to build a fleet of 80 to 100 such mobile labs for districts.</p>.<p>This is in line with the mobile clinics launched by the state government in rural Karnataka to conduct tests at the doorstep for villagers. However, unlike the RT-PCR tests planned for KIA, only Rapid Antigen Tests are being conducted in these villages.</p>.<p>By the first half of May, the mobile clinics had covered over 900 villages and screened more than 32,000 people. Each mobile clinic is manned by a doctor, nurse, laboratory technician, and Asha and anganwadi workers.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>COV-AID@BLR at KIA </strong></p>.<p>For KIA, the mobile van testing complements the COV-AID@BLR, a 150-bed oxygenated Covid-19 treatment centre operationalised recently.</p>.<p>Located near the cargo terminals of the airport, this facility is open to the public and employees from the KIA ecosystem.</p>.<p>Patients can get admission at the centre by contacting nodal officers Sannappaiah: 9448116661 and Dr Sanjay: 9538279991.</p>.<p>The facility also takes in patients referred from other hospitals. The patients are required to produce their Aadhaar card, the prescription provided by the referral hospital and relevant medical documents.</p>