The Department of Pathology, Blood Bank and Laboratory Medicine

The Department of Pathology, Blood Bank and Medical Laboratories is one of the first clinical departments to start operating at King Hamad University Hospital since the inception of its establishment in August 2011. Since then, this department has provided all the necessary medical tests and high-accuracy diagnostic results for various diseases and health disorders received by the hospital. Where the laboratory results are circulated through the special electronic system that connects all departments of the hospital with the laboratory.
The department is also committed to a high level of organization and professionalism in accordance with international quality standards for medical laboratories and through the application of international quality assurance programs.
These specialties include anatomical pathology (histopathology and cytology) which includes five consultants with experience and competence in this vital field that serves oncology patients as well as various other diseases. These consultants perform medical examination and diagnosis of tissue and cell samples along with anatomical information, biopsy analyzes, immune tissue cells and others. Cytology is used to study samples for all types of diseases with the help of molecular tests and analyzes to ensure the highest level of accuracy in diagnostic results.
It also includes the Department of Blood and Immunology Analysis, which provides clinical chemistry tests, which includes a wide system of routine laboratory testing services specialized in blood tests, blood serum and other body fluids for patients. These examinations are carried out using the latest advanced automated devices and equipment.
King Hamad University Hospital laboratories are considered the first in the Middle East in terms of technological development in the automated and electronic systems used in them, as these laboratories are fully automated and unified with systems specialized in medicinal chemistry, hematology and serums, which led to ensuring the accuracy of the results and the speed of obtaining them.
In addition to the Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microscopy, where microbiology examinations and microscopic medical examination of samples are performed using the latest diagnostic equipment that ensures us to obtain fast and accurate results and determine the type of bacteria and sensitivity to antibiotics. The examination of microscopic samples is carried out using automatic and semi-automatic devices, which prevents the possibility of errors and accurate results according to the highest standards.
The blood bank offers a full range of services, including selection and examination of blood donors, blood drawing procedures, separation of blood components, compatibility testing and preparation of compounds. The department also provides DNA testing for the first time in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which ensures the highest degree of accuracy in detecting blood-borne diseases, providing safe blood at all times, eliminating infections occurring after blood transfusions or reducing the possibility of their occurrence to the lowest possible rat.

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