Overview

The laboratory medicine department is established in accordance with international standard ISO 15189-2012 and is accredited by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).

Laboratory services at Sakra World Hospital provide service 24 hours a day and 7 days a week with a primary focus on the patient. Our services cover routine to advance testing like:

• Routine & Special Chemistry, Hormones, Tumour Markers, Fertility Markers and Drug Assays
• Routine and Special Haematology, Coagulation and Clinical Pathology
• Serology, Medical Microbiology and Molecular Testing
• Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology, Immunohistochemistry and Immunofluorescence
• Bedside testing: Whenever immediate results are needed for critical care during emergencies we provide bedside testing facility such as blood gas analysis, glucose level and cardiac marker tests.

The laboratory team is headed by Dr. Shabnam Roohi and supported by highly experienced physicians, medical technologists, medical technicians, histotechnologists, phlebotomists and lab assistants, all collaborating together to deliver high quality results.

Our team is meticulously trained as per the international standards to maintain quality in every step, right from sample collection till the report dispatch.

Our phlebotomy team is composed of highly trained phlebotomists who perform around 10000 outpatient blood collections per month. They train and guide the nurses for difficult blood collections of the admitted patients.

Our Phlebotomists are important members of the Sakra world hospital Healthcare Team, they not only take responsibility for the collection of peripheral blood samples from patients by venepuncture, finger prick, or a paediatric heel stick with minimal discomfort but also train the nurses in advanced sample collection procedures.

We believe in reporting results that guide the physicians in diagnosis and treatment. Through the application of cutting-edge technology and the state of art equipment in the field of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Pathology, Hematology, Serology, Microbiology, Molecular testing and Histopathology with experts in Neuropathology, Oncopathology, hepatobiliary and Gastrointestinal pathology, the laboratory service at Sakra World Hospital prides itself on providing rapid turnaround time, affordable inpatient & outpatient testing with superior customer service.