It is an integrated unit consisting of several departments equipped with a set of modern automated devices to serve all its departments automatically. These devices are connected via a computer network to the hospital's outpatient and inpatient reception department, where tests are ordered, performed, printed, and archived automatically using an organized computer program. Key Departments:
- Reception Unit: The laboratory provides services to public and private sector patients and receives all referrals from public sector patients, insurance companies, and private patients. These patients are required to attend an organized turn using an automated turn program. The required tests for each patient are recorded using a laboratory software system that ensures the issuance of special labels for each blood collection tube. The patient is then transferred to the blood collection room to have blood drawn according to the appropriate tubes for the required tests.
- Emergency Unit: This unit performs only emergency tests for the central emergency department. The rest of the hospital's departments are equipped with all the necessary automated devices to complete the work quickly and accurately. It also performs the required tests for body fluids, such as pleural fluid and ascites. - Blood Bank Unit: This unit provides blood to hospital patients, whether undergoing surgery or meeting their blood and blood product needs after determining blood type and performing compatibility tests for the required blood units.
- Automated Device Unit: This is an integrated, automated system that performs routine chemical and hormonal tests at a rate of 2,200 tests per hour, completing tests with high speed and accuracy.
- Microbiology Unit: Responsible for performing urine, stool, and semen tests.
- Bacteriological Analysis Unit: Responsible for culturing all patient samples for bacteria and fungi and performing antibiotic susceptibility tests according to internationally approved laboratory safety procedures.
- Hematology Unit: This unit performs the following tests:
1. Automated Blood Count: Blood is automatically examined to identify the CBC (complete blood count) and reticulocyte count.
2. Coagulation tests and monitoring of anticoagulant medications.
3. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate test.
4. Immunophenotyping of blood cells using flow cytometry to diagnose leukemia.
- Serology and Immunology Unit: Responsible for performing immunological tests using various methods based on detecting immune antibodies to all immune diseases, adopting the principles of ELISA, fluorescence, and hemagglutination.
- Routine and Non-Routine Chemistry Unit: Performs some specific chemical analyses, in addition to hemoglobin and protein electrophoresis. Non-routine chemical analyses are performed in the Atomic Absorption Unit, where trace metals (lead, mercury, zinc, etc.) are detected.
- Bioavailability and Virus Unit: This unit performs calibrations for specific medications, such as immunosuppressants (organ transplant drugs and narcotics), as well as calibrations of antibodies to viruses such as hepatitis A, C, B, HCV, CMV, measles, and Toxovirus, etc.)
- Molecular Biology Unit: This is a very modern and advanced technique that relies on dealing with genetic material, where the nucleic acids of viral and bacterial pathogens are isolated and extracted. Mutations in some genetic diseases are also detected, and HLA tests are performed for the needs of organ transplant patients.
- Cytogenetics Unit: This unit performs genetic chromosomal tests to detect abnormalities that may affect chromosomes and diagnose congenital or acquired genetic diseases. Stem Cell Bank Unit: Stem cells are extracted from the umbilical cord blood of newborns and stored in liquid nitrogen for 15 years, taking into account the quality and safety of the sample in terms of quantity, type, and freedom from infectious diseases.