Providing healthcare: JSMU to open six new lab collection points across Karachi

Two of these will be launched in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and North Nazimabad after Eid

KARACHI: Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) has decided to open six new laboratory collection points across the city to provide better facilities to its patients.

Initially, two collection points will be opened in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and North Nazimabad after Eid, after which four other laboratory collection points will be opened in different areas of the city.

JSMU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Tariq Rafi told The Express Tribune that the purpose of opening the laboratory collections points is to ease the burden of patients coming from far off areas in Karachi to the JSMU laboratory established opposite the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases. "The collection points will help provide easy, low-cost and accessible diagnosis to underpriviliged patients in Karachi," he said.



Furthermore, they are planning to purchase a CT scanner and MRI machine. These facilities will be available for the patients within six months. Currently, more than 150 pathological tests are carried out at the laboratory and the opening of new laboratory collection points will increase the number of diagnostic tests performed.

The collection points of the laboratory will further provide diagnosis of various pathological conditions and at the same time JSMU will introduce a department of tele-medicine. Through the department, patients from across the province can get health advice while staying at home.

According to Dr Rafi, the university's community medicine department will also initiate various clinics in different parts of the city to provide low-cost medical treatments. He added that within a short span of time, the university has opened its dental medical college and pharmacy college.