Holy Cross Hospital, Ambikapur
A significant proportion of the health care in the district and neighbouring districts, specially surgical facilities are taken care of in Holy Cross Hospital.
Holy Cross Hospital Laboratory is a 24 Χ7 facility providing services for Patients admitted in Hospital and walk- in patients.
The department has carried out 5,26,468 tests in the year 2022.
Over 90% of diagnostic and treatment decisions are made by doctors are based on medical laboratory test results. Without the work of laboratory professionals, physicians would not be able to confirm their diagnosis. Lab results can give the exact diagnosis or can point toward a possible cause which may be confirmed by further testing. Be it a case of diabetes or malignancy or infection or a case of cardiac disease it is impossible to proceed with the treatment without laboratory investigations. In short, treating a patient without lab support is like sailing an uncharted sea.
Blood studies done equipped with automated blood cell counters – Sysmex XT 2000i, Sysmex KX 21.
Biochemistry : Fully equipped with sophisticated instruments like Roche Modular EVO P800, Hitachi 902, Elecsys 2010, Cobas e 411 etc.
Microbiology : All routine stains and cultures and sensitivity, AFB and fungal cultures done. Serological tests: Lepto, Dengue, Elisa, Widal, RA, VDRL, Paulbunnel.
Histopathology: Examines and reports on an annual turnover of over 3000 surgical specimens including referrals from other hospitals and medical centres. Foetal pathology, Nephropathology, Hematopathology, Automated tissue processing and tissue tech-1 embedding system, Fluid cytology and FNAC.
Cytology : All cytological investigations
Dr. Nitin P Sapkal
MBBS, MD (Pathology)
