(a) whether Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has set up a laboratory in the Red
Cross Building on the Red Cross Road, New Delhi;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether the lab is going to use chemicals and gases which are hazardous for human
health;
(d) if so, whether there is any possibility of causing health risk in the surrounding
area because of the activities in the lab; and
(e) if so, the steps being taken to meet the situation?
MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE
(SMT. PANABAKA LAKSHMI)
(a) & (b) According to Indian Council of Medical Research, a small laboratory for routine
nutrition analysis such as hemoglobin estimation etc. is envisaged to be set up at
Tuberculosis Association of India Building at Red Cross Road, New Delhi.
(c) to (e) This is only a nutrition analysis laboratory and routine chemicals are
likely to be used. These chemicals has no health risk.