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Rapid Testing kits for Pneumonia Diagnosis
Development of a testing kit that provides rapid results for detection of pneumonia in order to improve patients’ health condition
ABOUT
Year Established: 2017
Beneficiaries: Elderly
| https://veridianbiotech.com | |
| Saving time in detecting Pneumonia |
SOCIAL ISSUES
- The current diagnostic techniques for pneumonia are complicated, together with the long waiting time in hospital, patients cannot receive the best treatment, resulted a long recovery time
SOCIAL INNOVATION
- Develop a rapid testing kit for detection of early mycoplasma which causes respiratory tract infection
- The assessment result is available within an hour, which can facilitate early diagnosis and treatment, and hence will improve patients' health condition, shorten their waiting time in the hospital
EXPECTED SOCIAL IMPACT
 | Patients who are over 60 years old get the assessment result quickly |
 | 16 hours to be saved from detecting early mycoplasma |
 | The waiting time in hospitals and the medical costs will be shortened and minimized respectively |
SERVICE MODEL
Provide testing kit, allow patients to get the assessment result quickly
PROGRAMME CONTENT
Sample testing
Clinical samples and feedback from elderly patients will be collected for further testing and analysis so that the testing kits can be refined to achieve higher detection rate