{"id":343906,"date":"2023-05-31T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=343906"},"modified":"2023-05-31T07:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:01:49","slug":"serum-institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/serum-institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-tb\/","title":{"rendered":"Serum Institute writes to govt, seeks in-house testing of its injection for detection of latent TB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB-696x445.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB-1068x684.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB-656x420.jpg 656w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Serum-Institute-writes-to-govt-seeks-in-house-testing-of-its-injection-for-detection-of-latent-TB.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi: &nbsp;The Serum Institute of India (SII) has urged the Union health ministry to allow in-house testing of its Cy-Tb injection for the detection of latent tuberculosis, saying the testing facility for this product is not available in any government lab in the country, official sources said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A letter in this regard was written by Prakash Kumar Singh, Director at SII, they said. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) approved market authorisation of Cy-Tb injection on May 9, 2022, but even after a year of approval, Cy-Tb is not available in the market due to the non-availability of testing facility in any government lab in India, Singh said in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: &nbsp;The Serum Institute of India (SII) has urged the Union health ministry to allow in-house testing of its Cy-Tb injection for the detection of latent tuberculosis, saying the testing facility for this product is not available in any government lab in the country, official sources said on Wednesday. A letter in this regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":343907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16790,16791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343909,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343906\/revisions\/343909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/343907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}