Laboratory Services

At Soni Group of Hospitals, our exclusive Laboratory Services provides a comprehensive range of diagnostic testing, clinical and consultative services to our patients as well as to other clinics and service providers.
Accuracy is the only key to gauge criticalness of any illness of a patient. Our services are provided with the same thought and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our laboratories are compliant with the international standards for laboratory accreditation.

Here are few tests which are frequently conducted in our labs:

• Microbiology receives almost any clinical specimen, including swabs, feces, urine, blood, sputum, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, as well as possible infected tissue. The work here is mainly concerned with cultures, to look for suspected pathogens which, if found, are further identified based on biochemical tests. Also, sensitivity testing is carried out to determine whether the pathogen is sensitive or resistant to a suggested medicine. Results are reported with the identified organism(s) and the type and amount of drug(s) that should be prescribed for the patient.
• Virology is concerned with identification of viruses in specimens such as blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid.
• Hematology examines whole blood specimens to perform full blood counts. Blood films are examined as well as many other specialized tests.
• Coagulation requires citrated blood samples to analyze blood clotting times and coagulation factors.
• Toxicology mainly tests for pharmaceutical and recreational drugs. Urine and blood samples are submitted to this lab.
• Urinalysis tests urine for many analysis, including microscopically. If measuring urine chemicals is required, the specimen is processed in the clinical biochemistry lab, if specialized cell studies are indicated, the specimen may be submitted to the cytopathology lab, and so on.
• Histopathology processes solid tissue removed from the body (biopsies) for evaluation at the microscopic level.
• Cytogenetics involves using blood and other cells to get a karyotype. This can be helpful in cases of prenatal diagnosis (e.g. Down’s syndrome) as well as in some cancers which have abnormal chromosomes.