Health care system is no longer a simple process of examining the patient and giving him/her a prescription; over the years there has been a rapid expansion in the various branches of health care services, due to the rapid explosion of scientific medical knowledge. In this process the role of laboratory in helping the clinician make an accurate diagnosis has gained tremendous importance in bridging the gap between the patient’s complaint and his treatment. Up gradation of knowledge is required to understand clinical laboratory sciences today, and clinical chemistry continuous to be one of the most rapidly advancing areas of laboratory medicine, with many new tests, methodologies and measuring system being introduced with each passing year.
To ensure this, departments are equipped with the state of art instruments and procedures have been developed and streamlined, to govern patient preparation, sample collection, sample identification, transport, preservation and analysis. The laboratory comes under the category of a large laboratory. As it is a laboratory performing tests relating to several laboratory disciplines, such as clinical biochemistry, clinical pathology, microbiology, serology, histopathology, hematology, immunology blood bank and transfusion services and using sophisticated instruments and the state of art blood bank with component facility.
