New Delhi: AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Saturday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, urging him to do away with the stringent guidelines of the ICMR for making COVID-19 testing facility flexible.Singh requested him to provide more licenses to the pathological labs and to give more testing kits to the state governments."More than 3 lakh people are affected as per the official records.
In such a situation, testing is the key and we have to increase testing. But in India, testing can only happen as per the guidelines of the ICMR.
I believe that this procedure should stop and the testing for COVID-19 should be done similar to any other pathological test," he said in the letter."I have written a letter to Union Health Minister Harsh.