One testing machine, three diseases: Delhi puts its tuberculosis platforms to work on hepatitis

Delhi already owns 85 Truenat testing machines — portable devices its tuberculosis programme uses to detect TB from a sample. The Delhi government now plans to put the same machines to work measuring hepatitis B and C viral load — how much virus is in a patient's blood — for people who screen positive, starting with one machine in each district. Health Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh said the point is simple: share the equipment national health programmes already have, so diagnosis arrives faster and scarce resources stretch further, in support of the National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme.

SDG 3 · Good health and well-being — Mechanism: institutional program