Department: Quality Improvement
Document Identifier: DHCR/SD/HCO/012/01
Laboratory services are an essential component of quality healthcare delivery at every level of the healthcare system. Laboratory services are required to support clinical diagnosis, rationalize and monitor treatment/therapy, for the screening for epidemiological purposes, surveillance and control of diseases of public health importance, and to provide early warning of disease outbreaks.
A Diagnostic Clinical Laboratory is a laboratory where tests are usually done on clinical specimens; body fluids such as blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and synovial fluid, as well as other specimens, in order to obtain information about the health of a patient as pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Diagnostic Clinical Laboratories may provide different investigations as follows;