Timely diagnosis of Covid is essential but the same requiresuse of a medical kit. India, like the rest of the world, is facing a monster ofunknown proportions.
To help manage the Covid disaster, six women decided to takesome matters in their own hands and formed an initiative to make RT-PCR kits.
RT-PCR stands for Reverse transcription polymerase chainreaction. In a little more detail, reverse transcription polymerase chainreaction is a laboratory technique combining reverse transcription of RNA intoDNA and amplification of specific DNA targets using polymerase chain reaction.It is primarily used to measure the amount of a specific RNA.
Basically, this test will tell if you have Corona virusinfection.
Also, it must be appreciated that a delay of even one hourcould mean the difference between life and death as hospitals are asking for apositive Covid report before considering someone to be admitted.
Dr Swapnali Kulkarni leads Cosara Diagnostics PrivateLimited and has been dispatching an average of 40,000 test kits every day.
She has a team of five women and they together lead thisprivate company to help their fellow Indians.
Mind you, only women are most sincere and hard-workingpeople and these six women prove this case. These six women have not take asingle leave in the 2020.
Why? Because their nation needs them.
This private company is a subsidiary of a listed company - Ambalal Sarabhai. The companyis currently listed on BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange).
The company has proven itself to be a major supplier tostates if Gujarat, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi.
Women power shone through the company’s operations when the manufacturingcapacity was increased from 8,000 in the beginning by 400% in the second waveof the pandemic.
Now, if all these were not enough, the women-led privatecompany is helping government and private labs with technical guidance.
What’s for future for these ladies? A target of 8 lakh testsper month or almost a crore tests per year.
That’s women power.