CHENNAI: The pathology lab at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital has received National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accreditation from the Union government and is now the first pathology lab in government hospitals in the State to get the accreditation.
Dean of RGGGH E Therani Rajan inaugurated the newly-accredited lab on Tuesday.
Doctors with the department said an accreditation given by NABL, a Central government body, means the lab meets international standard of treatment and in availability of best quality equipment, apart from being proficient in diagnosis and assurance of accuracy in results.
Director of the Pathology Department Dr Bharathi said it took two years of documentation procedure with 60 technicians involved, which helped get the honour. “We applied as soon as the documentation was over. The officials from Centre came for inspection last December and were impressed with our quality of care,” said Dr Bharathi.
The accreditation, she said, was approved by February. However, due to the pandemic, the inauguration was pushed to November. She pointed out that the biopsy sampling is widely done in the pathology lab, including cancer diagnosis.
“Annually, we see around 16,000 samples while machines such as auto tissue processor, cryostat and embedding machine are put to use,” she said. The lab’s signboard will contain the NABL emblem and all reports too would have it, she added.
Dr S Subitha, assistant professor of pathology, said the lab has specialities of histopathology and cytopathology, which deal with the study of tissues affected by diseases and diagnosis of diseases in the cells respectively.
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