Laboratory services are provided through a well-equipped, highly automated and professionally run facility, providing 24-hour service seven days a week, including holidays, by a team of full-time histopathologists, haematologists, chemical pathologists, molecular pathologists and microbiologists. The services offer routine and special clinical chemistry, haematology, blood transfusion, microbiology, immunology, surgical pathology, cytology and molecular pathology.

Specialised sections of the laboratory include Endocrine Laboratory, Cytogenetics, Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) including Pathvysion (Breast Her2 – neugene amplification) and Aneuvysion (detection of numerical aberration in chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X and Y), Aspiration Cytology including Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA), Frozen Sections, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Molecular Pathology. Accuracy and precision of tests are maintained by strict internal and external quality control procedures.

AKUH's clinical laboratory participates in various quality assurance programmes and is well known for its accuracy and precision of testing. To date, the Hospital has a network of approximately 200 laboratory specimen collection units in all major cities of Pakistan and performs over 7 million tests annually. AKUH also receives pathological specimens from UAE.

The Department of Pathology and Microbiology serves the clinical laboratory network of the Hospital. The laboratory is one of the first laboratories in the world to receive ISO Certification and Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA). The Department also publishes a regular pathology newsletter that provides an update on new procedures and tests in the clinical laboratories....More