Indigenous Diabetes-screening strips to cost Rs 4,says Ghulam Nabi Azad

The strip will make diabetes screening affordable.

Written by Express News Service
Ahmedabad | Updated: January 9, 2014 02:46 PM IST

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Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said that his ministry will be launching indigenously developed diabetes-testing strips,that will cost just Rs 4.

“This strip will make diabetes screening affordable in the country. This indigenous strip is very cheap. It will cost just Rs 4 and will replace the strips that are currently costing Rs 35 in the market. One week later I will be launching these strip,” Azad said while addressing NRI doctors at a summit organised by American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) at Ahmedabad on Saturday.