Port Blair, Aug 25: The Member of Parliament, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration to ensure availability of COVID-19 testing kits at PHC Kadamtala and also in other Health Care Centers in the Inter Islands for testing of symptomatic persons.  

He informed that one person who is the inhabitant of Kadamtala has been tested COVID-19 positive by the PHC Kadamtala and due to non-availability of kits for COVID-19 test, the PHC Kadamtala could not conduct COVID-19 tests for the contact and other symptomatic persons in the Kadamtala and Uttara villages.

Kuldeep requested for immediate precautionary measures to be taken to contain the spread of virus to others in these area. He suggested that the required quantity of testing kits of COVID-19 may be provided at PHC Kadamtala at the earliest.  The MP also suggested that the required testing kits of COVID-19 may also be made available in all the Health Care Centers in the remote Islands in North & Middle Andaman and Nicobar Group of Islands besides District Hospitals to enable the Medical staff to conduct COVID test for the symptomatic persons immediately in the respective locality to prevent further spread of infection/virus to others.