Introduction

Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan's first private international university, is committed to providing education, research, and health care of international standard relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital has well-equipped investigative services and provides state‑of‑the‑art clinical facilities. AKUH is the first hospital in Pakistan to be awarded the prestigious Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) for practicing the highest internationally recognized healthcare standards.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The Aga Khan University is a dynamic academic center that serves the diagnostic needs of the country through its clinical laboratory services that span Pakistan. AKUH’s Clinical Laboratory is College of American Pathologists (CAP) accredited. It caters to the need of the entire country through its tertiary lab at the main campus and 300+ specimen collect...