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Port Blair, Nov 26: The lipid profile test, which is a combination of tests conducted together to check for any risks of coronary heart disease is at present not carried out at G B Pant Hospital, even if Doctors of the same hospitals are advising for the test.
According to patients, they are being told by hospital staffs that the machine for conducting Lipid Profile Test is out of order since atleast last two weeks.
“I have been asked by Doctor to bring Lipid Profile Test report but lab staffs are telling us that the machine is out of order. Now I can’t even meet Doctor without this report to consult about my heart problem,” a patient told Andaman Sheekha who have been struggling since last 15 days to get this test done at G B Pant Hospital.
When Andaman Sheekha spoke with Dr Omkar Singh, the Director of Health Services, he said that, there is a big difference in repairing an equipment at mainland India and at Andaman Islands as a fact that distance matters and moreover the present pandemic situation also plays a role in the lack of maintenance of the equipments”.
He further mentioned that lipid profile test is done according to the instructions given by the doctor but it’s a matter of fact that now a days, public themselves come and demand that they need the test to be done.
“Lipid Profile Test is a necessary test but not a life saving test. This test is necessary for secondary prevention but it is not that one can’t treat without conducting this test”. However, Dr. Singh assured that the machine will be repaired very soon.
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