29/03/2020
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Minal Dakhave Bhosale is the research and development chief of Mylab Discovery in Pune which became the first Indian firm to get full approval to make and sell testing kits.
She headed the team that designed the coronavirus testing kit called Patho Detect. Ms Bhosale said it was done "in record time" - six weeks instead of three or four months.
The scientist was battling with her own deadline too! Last week she gave birth to a baby girl - and only began work on the programme in February, just days after leaving hospital with a pregnancy complication.
In the end, she submitted the kit for evaluation by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) on 18 March, just a day before delivering her daughter.
"It was an emergency, so I took this on as a challenge. I have to serve my nation," she says, adding that her team of 10 worked "very hard" to make the project a success.
Image courtesy: Minal Dakhave Bhosale (Facebook)
