Clinical sample testing
Laboratory Services
Haematology, clinical chemistry, microbiology, immunology, hormone testing and other laboratory investigations.

Department services
Services offered
Haematology
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
- Blood group and Rhesus factor
- Haemoglobin electrophoresis
- Peripheral blood film
- Reticulocyte count
- Crossmatch
Clinical chemistry
- Renal function tests
- Liver function tests
- Lipid profile
- Uric acid
- Pancreatic enzymes
- Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)
- Extended electrolytes
Cardiac tests
- Troponin
- CK-MB
- D-dimer
- Pro-BNP
- Creatine kinase (CK)
Thyroid and adrenal tests
- Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)
- Free T4
- Free T3
- Serum cortisol
Tumour markers
- CA 19-9
- CA 125
- CA 15-3
- Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)
- Total prostate-specific antigen (TPSA)
- Free prostate-specific antigen (FPSA)
- Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)
- Beta-hCG
Fertility hormones
- Prolactin
- Luteinising hormone (LH)
- Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
- Testosterone
- Progesterone
- Anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH)
- Estradiol
- Beta-hCG
Coagulation tests
- Prothrombin time / international normalised ratio (PT/INR)
- Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)
- Fibrinogen
- Thrombin time
Diabetes tests
- HbA1c
- Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)
- Random blood sugar (RBS)
- Fasting blood sugar (FBS)
- Serum fasting insulin
Anaemia tests
- Iron
- Serum ferritin
- Transferrin
- Total iron-binding capacity
- Vitamin B12
- Serum folate
TORCH screening
- Toxoplasma IgG and IgM
- Rubella IgG and IgM
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV) IgG and IgM
- Herpes IgG and IgM
- Syphilis testing
Inflammatory tests
- Antinuclear antibody (ANA)
- Anti-CCP
- C-reactive protein (CRP)
- Rheumatoid factor
- Anti-dsDNA
- Procalcitonin
Microbiology
- Malaria antigen (MRDT)
- Malaria blood slide
- Stool analysis
- Typhoid antigen
- Faecal occult blood
- H. pylori antigen
- Typhoid IgG and IgM
- Gram stain
- High vaginal swab (HVS) culture and sensitivity
- Pus swab culture and sensitivity
- Blood culture and sensitivity
- Pleural fluid culture and sensitivity
- Sputum culture and sensitivity
- Urinalysis
- Urine culture and sensitivity
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis, culture and sensitivity
- Stool culture and sensitivity
- Sputum analysis (Ziehl-Neelsen stain)
- Sputum GeneXpert
- Stool GeneXpert
Immunology
- HIV screening
- Hepatitis B testing
- Hepatitis C testing
- Brucella test
- Serum hCG
- Urine hCG
- Hepatitis B core antibody
- Hepatitis B envelope testing
- Hepatitis B immunity testing
- Hepatitis A antibody
- Hepatitis B viral load
- Hepatitis C viral load
- HIV PCR
- HIV viral load
Other investigations
- Vitamin D levels
- Antistreptolysin O (ASOT) titres
- Parathyroid hormone
- Pap smear
- Histology
- Serum protein electrophoresis
- CD4 count



