Agappe MD’s Desk
Why AGAPPE is different? Journeying through a peerless avenue... Thomas John, Managing Director, Agappe Diagnostics Ltd.
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he Indian healthcare sector is growing at a faster pace with the increase of the lifestyle diseases and population in the country. Diabetes, cardiac, hepatic and gastric diseases are widespread in the country in the last two decades. Similarly, IVD sector have also seen dramatic changes with the increase in the number of automated instruments and specific tests. India, with the competitive advantage of large pool of well-trained professionals and highly competitive cost, is becoming the hub for medical tourism. Thomas John during the TiE Kerala award ceremony 2016.
In the current scenario, laboratory diagnosis plays a vital role and rather than competitive pricing, the doctors and patients are looking for quality results, which are comparable to international standards. One of the major challenges in the IVD sector is the standardisation of the instruments and reagents used, and primarily, it becomes the responsibility of the manufacturer to meet with the requirements. Manufacturers standardise the materials and machines to the guidelines which are traceable to national or international level to assure the quality of the results. Agappe has well understood the need of quality processes and to deliver the quality products having traceability with national or international standards, it participated in external assessments by world renowned organizations.
NGSP certification A decade ago, the most common test used for diabetes was the Serum Glucose along with Urine glucose and Micro al bumin. HbA1c was considered as a special test and was performed in very few laboratories. Because of the non-standardised methods used in the estimation, the chances of error were very high. In India, there were multiple methods present for estimation of HbA1c from Column Chromatography to Ion exchange resin methods. These methods have shown very low correlation in between giving inconclusive results. This was because of the improper standardisation of the technique used.
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