Panaji

Health minister Vishwajit Rane today announced that the government will be providing ‘i-stat machines’, a handheld blood analysing device, to the state’s remotest villages to enable testing of blood on the spot.

“The i-stat machine will allow blood to be tested immediately on 28 parameters in the remotest villages of Goa. People will not have to go the Primary Health Centres after these machines are made available in the villages,” Rane said.

He said that the devices are being procured from Abbott pharmaceutical and will be provided to sub-health centres in the next 30 days.