INDORE: State health authorities issued directions along with guidelines to 20 civil surgeons for collecting blood samples of newborn for sickle cell anaemia and other metabolic disorder testing in a lab set up in AIIMS, Bhopal.
In a letter, NHM director Priyanka Das directed civil surgeons of those 20 districts with tribal population for sending samples collected through dried blood spot method of all newly born to AIIMS, Bhopal laboratory to screening them under for metabolic disorder including sickle cell anaemia under State Haemoglobinopathy Mission.
Das directed civil surgeons to mandatorily send blood samples within 72 hours to the AIIMS and attached a detailed guidelines detailing the procedure to be followed in the process in the letter.
