Agappe Diagnostics ties up with Hitachi Chemical Company

KOCHI: Agappe Diagnostics Ltd, a major diagnostic reagents and equipment manufacturers, has tied up with Japanese company Hitachi Chemical Company Ltd through technology licensing for manufacturing fully automatic specific protein and clinical chemistry analysers in India.

Thomas John, managing director, Agappe, said the manufacture of the equipment would commence at Agappe’s manufacturing facility in Kochi in a year and it would help to bring down the costs of the tests by analysers.

The instrument provides ease in operation, at roughly one third cost per test compared to the conventional method analyzers. Affordable pricing would help rural penetration with medium and smaller labs also entering the platform of advanced testing. ``The aim is to provide everyone across the nation right result at right time for proper diagnosis and treatment,’’Thomas John said.

Tsuyoshi Uchida deputy general manager, medical business unit, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. said with the instrument there is a special advantage of automatic retrieval of calibration due to pre-calibration, where the chances of errors are almost zero.

The instrument enables early detection of kidney malfunctioning, cardiac problems and osteoporosis. It can also support detection of prostate cancer and TB.