Department of Health Research (DHR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has different Central Sector Schemes through which a number of BSL-3 and BSL-4 facilities have been sanctioned/established.
Under Scheme ‘Setting-up of nation-wide network of laboratories for managing epidemics and national calamities’, eleven BSL-3 facilities have been sanctioned/established at different Regional Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDLs).
Under Scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission’ (PM-ABHIM), two BSL-4 facilities, nine BSL-3 facilities and four Mobile BSL-3 units have been sanctioned/established.
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), an autonomous body under DHR has sanctioned/established one BSL-4 facility and nine BSL-3 facilities in biosafety laboratories in different ICMR institutions.
Eleven BSL-3 Laboratories and 1 BSL-4 Laboratory have been sanctioned under National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
20 Metropolitan Surveillance Units are proposed under Pradhan Mantri-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM).
The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Prof. SP Singh Baghel stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
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