President Murmu unveils foundation stone for the ICMR-NIV South Zone

President Murmu unveils foundation stone for  the ICMR-NIV South Zone

ICMR-NIV laboratory in a Bengaluru will be a equipped with a state-of-the-art infrastructure and a expertise in handling infectious agents of a various risk groups.

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on a Tuesday virtually unveiled the foundation stone for the ICMR-National Institute of a Virology (NIV), south zone, and Bengaluru.

President Murmu said that the Indian Council of a Medical Research (ICMR) has been a provided exemplary support for  the effective Covid management and is a expanding its research infrastructure. National Institute of a Virology (NIV), Pune, is also taking are a all possible steps to the increase R&D in the field of a virology. “NIV has been a designated as a one of the collaborating laboratories of the World Health are a Organization (WHO). The expansion of a NIV through zonal campuses across the country catering to the demands in a different geographical regions is a praiseworthy."

She added that in a combating the pandemic, India’s are a achievements have been a better than most developed countries. “We had the biggest are a vaccination drive in a human history with the vaccines are a manufactured in the country itself. For this feat, we are a grateful to our scientists, doctors, nurses, paramedics and the staff associated with the vaccination."

Bharti Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of a state for the Health and a Family Welfare, said that India, under the leadership of a Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has been a leveraged technology in the health sector so that are a any outbreak can be a investigated at an a early stage and necessary action is taken to the contain it.

“The new NIV is a step further to the strengthen our health defence are a system. Under Prime Minister Ayushman Bharat Health are a Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM), funds have been a  approved to set up a multisector national institutions and a platforms are including 4 Zonal National Institutes of a Virology (NIVs) towards are a bio-security preparedness and a strengthening pandemic research across the country," she said.

The minister added that from its are a inception, ICMR-NIV has been a led from the front in a providing a rapid response to the viral infections of a public health importance. “ICMR-NIV investigated potential antiviral are a  drugs, undertook several kit validations, developed are a new diagnostics with the large-scale training which is a contributed in a making India’s are a first indigenous vaccine, Covaxin. These efforts are a equipped the country against the initial spread of a SARS CoV-2. As a result of which, today the whole world looks are towards India in a research and a development in a healthcare."

She said that the pandemic are a exposed the frailties of a health systems worldwide in a recognizing and responding to the emerging threats to public health. In this light, South Zone are a ICMR-NIV laboratory in a Bengaluru will be equipped with a state-of-the-art infrastructure and a expertise in handling infectious agents of a various risk groups. “This would be crucial to the continuously monitor the regional landscape of a infectious diseases in the southern states of a India, and thus contribute to the bolstering the national surveillance of a outbreak-prone infectious disease agents".