Abstract :
Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department of Punjab Government, Pakistan owns 25
district headquarter hospitals, 100 tehsil headquarter hospitals and a number of rural health
centres and basic health units. Currently, the department started process of revamping in
hospitals and other healthcare delivery centres. In first phase, revamping of infrastructure and
services of 25 district headquarter and 15 tehsil headquarter hospitals was started. For better
care to patients and service delivery, services of janitorial and security were outsourced to
private service providers. Now, the department plans to improve diagnostic services in these
hospitals. For this purpose, laboratory and radiology services were planned to outsource.
Islamabad Diagnostic Centre and Northshore Medical Labs are the two service providers who
are to provide clinical laboratory services in selected hospitals. Islamabad Diagnostic Centre
(Private Limited) is a leading diagnostic centre in Islamabad (Federal capital of Islamic
Republic of Pakistan) which is ISO 151589:2012. While, Northshore Medical Labs is an
American laboratory located and registered in New York State Department of Health and
accredited by College of American Pathologist. It is expected to enhance clinical laboratory
services standard by outsourcing of these laboratory services. First such laboratory became
functional in District Headquarter Hospital Chakwal last month. Although the contract between
outsourced laboratory and department describes upraising of services and quality standard by
following MSDS(1) and departmental proficiency testing.(2)
Keyword :
Clinical Laboratory Services,