• KCMC Clinical Laboratory support the patient’s care by conducting investigations on patient’s specimens in different sections including Haematology, Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology, Serology, Blood Transfusion, Parasitology and Molecular diagnostics (DNA PCR for HIV Early Infant Diagnosis-HEID and viral load). During the year 2014 a total of 83,243 specimens were received and on which, 144,676 laboratory investigations were conducted as compared to 129,537 investigations conducted in 2013. The main reasons for the increase in the number of investigations (15,139 – 11.7%) were due to improved maintenance and operation of the laboratory equipment, improved stock management and reduced incidence of stockouts of reagents as well as hiring of more technical staff.

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