Jammu, 24.04.2021 : In its endeavour to strength the COVID-19 testing facilities at Leh & Kargil in Ladakh Union Territory and promptly acting on the call of Director Health, Ladakh, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM), Jammu with the help of Air Force, Jammu have today airlifted high end machines to Leh and Kargil to augment the existing COVID-19 testing facilities at both the places.

Since the road link from Jammu to Leh is presently closed, thus in view of upsurge in the COVID cases and burden on testing, CSIR-IIIM, Indian Air Force have jointly managed to deliver these equipment at Leh and Kargil which would no doubt would increase the daily testing capacities there.

Pertinently, earlier the Sun Pharma & HAL as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CSIR have jointly provided infrastructural and technical manpower support to the Ladakh UT for COVID testing.