DALTONGANJ, Feb. 28 -- MMCH Daltonganj is deficient in inhouse pathology tests. The poor turn to pathology services available in cash down.There are only 12 types of tests that the inhouse pathology facility in the MMCH offers.

It includes pregnancy test, hemoglobin test, blood sugar test, sickle cell anemia test, Australian antigen etc.However it does not offer urine culture test.

Medical superintendent Dr Dharmendra Kumar conceded "Our inhouse pathology facility is not upto marks. We don't do urine culture."

He attributed this poverty of pathology tests to non availability of the sophisticated auto analysers of hematology and biochemistry.

As the MMCH Daltonganj comes under the command of the principal of the medical college here Dr P...