Establishing national centre for point-of-care technology for 'Swasth Bharat, Samridh Bharat'

Vivek Chauhan; Sarman Singh; Sagar Galwankar; Praveen Aggarwal; Sanjeev Bhoi; Salvatore Di Somma; W. Frank Peacock; Lorenzo Paladino

doi:10.4103/JLP.JLP_139_19

Journal of Laboratory Physicians, Table of Contents

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · J Lab Physicians 2019; 11(03): 177-179
DOI: 10.4103/JLP.JLP_139_19

Editorial

Establishing national centre for point-of-care technology for 'Swasth Bharat, Samridh Bharat'

Vivek Chauhan

Department of Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India

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Sarman Singh

Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Sagar Galwankar

Department of Emergency Medicine, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Florida, USA

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Praveen Aggarwal

Department of Emergency Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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Sanjeev Bhoi

Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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Salvatore Di Somma

Department of Emergency Medicine, Sant'Andrea Hospital, University La Sapienza Rome, Rome, Italy

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W. Frank Peacock

Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

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Lorenzo Paladino

SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Medical Centre, New York City, New York, USA

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