"The dengue testing kit will be provided by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the selected hospital will be have to bear processing cost and provide human resource," said Dr BK Singh, Additional Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) of Noida.

A three member team under the leadership of Dr Kalpana Barua, Dy Director (Vector Borne Diseases) surveyed major private hospitals of the city - Fortis Hospital, Kailash Hospital, Max Hospital, Vinayak Hospital, Metro Hospital and Bhardwaj Hospital but Fortis Hospital at Sector-62 is likely to win the race.

The hospital has already submitted its consent to the terms and conditions of the project. This unit in Fortis Hospital would be developed as Centinal Lab for dengue confirmation test in this region and the tests would be free of cost.

"Presently, we have to send blood samples of suspected patients of dengue to National Institution of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi for confirmation test. Generally it takes three to four days to get the report but after establishment of this lab in Noida the patients will get the report on the same day," added Singh.

This lab would provide free testing facility for dengue to referred cases of district Government hospital of Noida and also will act as a reference lab for private hospitals on nominal charges that would be decided soon.