She Gave India's First COVID-19 Testing Kit A Day Before Giving Birth
"It was an emergency, so I took this on as a challenge. I have to serve my nation," said Minal Dakhave Bhosale.
Minal Dakhave Bhosale is behind India's first coronavirus testing kit.ndustrialist Anand Mahindra and actor Soni Razdan are among the thousands who are applauding the efforts of Minal Dakhave Bhosale - the virologist behind India's first coronavirus testing kit. According to the BBC,
Ms Bhosale is the research and development chief of Mylab Discovery in Pune, the first Indian firm to get full approval to make and sell coronavirus testing kits. The molecular diagnostic company has been successful in creating a kit that can test 100 samples and costs Rs 1,200 - a quarter of the cost of COVID-19 testing kits that India has been importing from abroad.
Ms Bhosale headed the team that designed the coronavirus testing kit, called Patho Detect, at Mylab. She began working on it just days after leaving the hospital with a pregnancy complication in February - and managed to submit the kit for evaluation by the National Institute of Virology on March 18, just a day before she delivered her daughter.
"It was an emergency, so I took this on as a challenge. I have to serve my nation," said Minal Dakhave Bhosale to BBC.
"We have achieved COVID-19 testing in only two-and-a-half hours compared to other tests which are six-seven hours. We did this by utilising our expertise of development processes and FAST mode acting reagents," she added in an interview to Hindustan Times.
Minal Dakhave Bhosale's story was shared by actor Soni Razdan on Instagram this morning, where it has collected hundreds of 'likes' within minutes.
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"It was an emergency, so I took this on as a challenge. I have to serve my nation," said Minal Dakhave Bhosale.
Minal Dakhave Bhosale is behind India's first coronavirus testing kit.ndustrialist Anand Mahindra and actor Soni Razdan are among the thousands who are applauding the efforts of Minal Dakhave Bhosale - the virologist behind India's first coronavirus testing kit. According to the BBC,
Ms Bhosale is the research and development chief of Mylab Discovery in Pune, the first Indian firm to get full approval to make and sell coronavirus testing kits. The molecular diagnostic company has been successful in creating a kit that can test 100 samples and costs Rs 1,200 - a quarter of the cost of COVID-19 testing kits that India has been importing from abroad.
Ms Bhosale headed the team that designed the coronavirus testing kit, called Patho Detect, at Mylab. She began working on it just days after leaving the hospital with a pregnancy complication in February - and managed to submit the kit for evaluation by the National Institute of Virology on March 18, just a day before she delivered her daughter.
"It was an emergency, so I took this on as a challenge. I have to serve my nation," said Minal Dakhave Bhosale to BBC.
"We have achieved COVID-19 testing in only two-and-a-half hours compared to other tests which are six-seven hours. We did this by utilising our expertise of development processes and FAST mode acting reagents," she added in an interview to Hindustan Times.
Minal Dakhave Bhosale's story was shared by actor Soni Razdan on Instagram this morning, where it has collected hundreds of 'likes' within minutes.
Coronavirus: Meet the woman who created India's first COVID-19 testing kit during last stage of pregnancy
Bhosale gave birth to a baby girl just a day before submitting the kit to the authorities
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