Regulate Rapid RT-PCR test rates at Mumbai airport: Rajesh Tope to IRS officer

State Health Minister Rajesh Tope has written to IRS officer Dr Sudhakar Shinde to regulate prices of Rapid RT-PCR tests at the Mumbai International Airport. Dr Shinde heads the price regulation committee of the state and the Mahatma Phule Jan Arogya Mission.

Tope’s letter comes in the backdrop of a letter written on December 7 by Additional Chief Secretary of the state health department Dr Pradeep Vyas to Union Health Departments Additional Secretary Arti Ahuja stating that the rates of Rapid RT-PCR tests at Mumbai International Airport Limited run by Adani Airports are too high. The Indian Express had reported about Vyas’s letter on December 8.