IGMH Laboratory Comes To A Halt Due To Unforeseen Technical Error


Indra Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) is the largest governmental healthcare facility in the country, providing tertiary level healthcare with specialist referral services to both domestic and foreign patients. Along with special consultations, IGMH houses modern investigative and emerging technologies in diagnosis, providing efficient patient-centered healthcare.

However, even the most advanced technological machines have technical outbreaks that has to be manually corrected by technicians. Such an incident has occurred in the Alinity cl-machine that is used for outpatient blood tests in the IGMH laboratory.

The hospital has released a statement apologizing for the inconveniences caused for patients who has come in for blood tests on November 8th & 9th and the technical team from the hospital has been working nonstop in order to get the machines up and running again. IGMH also highlighted that the same tests can be done in any of the Vinavi authorized centers in the capital cities.