Telangana Well being Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha inaugurates a De-Dependancy Counselling Centre (DACC) and a Substance Intoxication Care Unit (SICU) at Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad on Saturday, April 11, 2026.
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A small testing equipment that delivers leads to simply quarter-hour is now on the centre of Telangana’s response to rising substance abuse, particularly in Hyderabad, with docs at Gandhi Hospital utilizing multi-drug urine screening to shortly detect and provoke therapy for sufferers.
The testing unit, roughly the scale of a small handheld field, incorporates a number of vertical strips, every calibrated to establish a particular substance. Labels on the panel correspond to medicine akin to amphetamines, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, opioids, cocaine, hashish, and barbiturates, amongst others, permitting clinicians to display for as much as 12 substances concurrently.
Revealed – April 11, 2026 08:43 pm IST
