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Difficulty in getting equipment and reagents during
pandemic
The other thing that we do together is the pooled procurement for all our reagents. At that
time, we need to upgrade our laboratories, we need to upgrade our equipment as well. As Dr.
Ravi has stated earlier, when there is a pandemic, there is a lot of demand, and the supply is
low. It was really stressful, it felt like we had money but we weren't able to get the reagents
and equipment, and we weren’t able to move forward. There are a lot of alternative plans that
we have to put in place to make sure that the testing can be carried out well.
