Damascus - Sana
Through a set of modern automated devices, the Medical Analysis Laboratory at Al-Assad University Hospital in Damascus provides its various services to patients around the clock, bringing the number of analyzes carried out daily to about ten thousand analyzes according to those in charge of it and they are printed and archived automatically according to an organized computer program and a fully automated process.
The laboratory provides services for various specialties, whether internal or surgical, which helps to make the correct and necessary diagnosis of diseases and develop an accurate and appropriate treatment plan for them in an optimal manner, according to the statement of the head of the laboratory department at the hospital, Dr. Samer Mahmoud to the SANA representative.
The number of patients who benefit from the services of the laboratory daily exceeds 650 patients, both internally and externally, according to Dr. Mahmoud, explaining: “Of them 200 to 300 external patients, the approved cost of them is fully met, but it is reduced to half of the accepted value for the same analyzes in the laboratories outside the hospital, while internal patients pay 15% of the value of their bill, whatever it may be, ”indicating that there is a special reduction for the families of martyrs and a full exemption from the cost for the war wounded.
Dr. Mahmoud indicated that during the coming period an expansion will be made to the laboratory's electronic role system, where the number of registration niches will be increased from two to five to accommodate the increasing number of patients, which doubles daily due to the price difference between the hospital and outside it, as well as the development process will include the blood withdrawal room and increase the number of its cadres There is a plan to add some modern devices.
On the other hand, the laboratory receives all referrals of patients in the public sector, insurance companies and patients of the private section, where the laboratory, Najwa Thabet, a supervisor in the hospital's outpatient department, indicated that the required analyzes are recorded for each patient in an organized role and by using a laboratory software system that secures the issuance of special labels for each blood drawing tube and then moves The patient is taken to the blood collection chamber for sampling.
From the Department of Molecular Biology and Stem Cell Bank, the laboratory said the success of the defeat: “We carry out all types of analyzes related to viruses such as hepatitis B and C and thalassemia, and tissue matching analysis for patients whose condition requires transplantation in addition to other qualitative analyzes,” noting that the materials are available to Pretty much although sometimes there is difficulty in renting some of them.
A number of reviewers expressed their satisfaction with the procedures of the role, organization and sampling, including Hassan Salem, who explained that the doctors asked his son several blood tests because he suffers from growth failure and its cost abroad is high for him 28 thousand pounds while he conducted it in the laboratory of Al-Assad University Hospital for free because he is a war wounded and exempt from the cost.
Abdullah Sharaf Al-Din and Nour Radwan confirmed that all the procedures in the hospital laboratory are easy despite the large number of patients and clients.
The Al-Assad University Hospital, which opened in Damascus in 1988, is considered one of the largest hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Higher Education, and it provides medical and surgical services to patients with the latest methods of medicine.
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