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Nawaloka Hospitals PLC joint venture with Metropolis India

Nawaloka Metropolis laboratory is a joint venture between Nawaloka Hospitals PLC and Metropolis Health Services, Mumbai, India.

Metropolis is a multinational chain of referral laboratories. Nawaloka Metropolis Laboratories, using cutting edge technology and systems with software and hardware calibrated constantly and in keeping with international standards keeps laboratory reports virtually error free. Nawaloka Metropolis Laboratory reports are trusted internationally.

“Last year, over 21 million tests were performed by Nawaloka Metropolis Laboratory in Sri Lanka alone.

That is a number that cannot be ignored.

This number is more than combined test workload of many national level players. Nawaloka Metropolis, Sri Lanka’s only multinational referral laboratory is proud to have treated virtually every Sri Lankan.”

Today Nawaloka Metropolis proudly takes another step in serving to the nation by inaugurating their Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Laboratory.

The Molecular Biology and Genetics Diagnostic unit is a newly conceived unit as a part of Nawaloka Metropolis Laboratories Pvt. Ltd.

The Molecular Biology and Genetics Research unit was formed virtually a year ago with the aim of diagnosing difficult bacterial and viral pathogens using technologies like PCR, FISH, and Flow Cytometry.

The speed and ease of use, sensitivity, specificity and strength of PCR has revolutionized molecular biology and made PCR the most widely used and powerful technique with great spectrum of research and diagnostic applications.

PCR has proved to be a useful tool in research and diagnosis.

However, its use has also brought new challenges to research.

The sensitivity found in PCR technology and the availability of quantitative results will bring new problems to the interpretation of these results.

Nawaloka Metropolis Laboratory is the first Molecular and Genetics Research Diagnostic laboratory in Sri Lanka to offer state of the art Smart Cycler ii which is quantitative/qualitative real time PCR (QPCR) tests to the diagnostic people and have established an internationally renowned reputation for providing excellent quality results.

Metropolis has been officially recognized from health professional organization CAP (College of American Pathologists)

Quantitative real time PCR (QPCR) is a method of quantifying the amount of a specific DNA present in a sample.

Samples can be blood, tissue or cells collected.

The target DNA can be of viral, bacterial or host origin and present at high or low levels.

There is dramatic reduction in the potential for false positive results due to closed tube system used in Smart Cycler ii QPCR.

The diseases like HIV, Hepatitis, Dengue can be detected by this technique in early phase of infections thereby saving valuable lives and cost of hospitalization for patients.

In molecular biology testing laboratories use two different types of testing reagent kits, fully locally produced which drastically reduces the cost and branded kits from reputed manufacturers have premium prices with guaranteed kits.

Nawaloka Metropolis is proud to do extremely well in the field of Genetics and Molecular diagnostic with competitive pricing with state of the art diagnostic evaluation ensuring fast turnaround time.

Within the past six years Nawaloka Metropolis Laboratories have upgraded their Internal and External quality control procedures.

It has spread their wings across the island providing the laboratory facilities with the same quality and accuracy as in Nawaloka Hospitals to the people in peripheries.

 

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