Pathcare Advantage

Using PathCare Nigeria’s services offers you the following advantages:

Internal Quality Control:
In order to ensure reliability and reproducibility of our results, we perform the following:
• Daily calibration of the equipment. This ensures that the machines are set at the precise levels required for each test, producing dependable results.
• Multiple controls run daily to ensure the accuracy of the results.
• Reagent monitoring and regulation: We monitor the temperature and conditions of all our reagents to ensure that the cold chain is maintained.

External Quality Assessment Scheme:
We are enrolled in International External quality control schemes. This means that we analyse samples that are sent to us from EQA organizations and the results are monitored to ensure that we produce results of an international standard. This guarantees that results produced here in Nigeria are the same as those produced anywhere else in the world.

Pathologist Review:
Pathcare Nigeria has the largest number of pathologists in any private medical facility in Nigeria.
The pathologist helps review, interprete, make comments and offer advice on tests done. He is available to ensure you get the most reliable, accurate and precise tests results from your sample/specimen.

Expert Services and Advice:
In addition to our in-house consultant pathologists we have access to over 70 pathologists who are specialists
in every field of pathology. Our partnership with PathCare South Africa grants us access to extensive resources which may be required in interpreting results or investigating and managing patients.

Widest Range of Tests:
Pathcare provides the widest range of tests in Nigeria that previously many Nigerians had to travel abroad for. New more accurate and reliable comprehensive testing is available here in Nigeria at global standards.
We provide access to pathological investigations which range from the basic and routine to the sophisticated and highly specialised. These include Allergy Testing (RAST), specialized Endocrinology testing, DNA (paternity Testing), PCR, Electron Microscopy, Immunohistochemistry and Genetic studies.

Fast Turn around Time:
We are committed to providing precise and dependable results as quickly as possible. We aim to provide exceptional results and therefore treat samples as they come, so that patients can receive diagnosis and treatment from their Doctors in the shortest amount of time possible.

Cost:
We are able to provide valuable tests previously available only in developed countries at affordable prices while eliminating patient travel costs. These include drug monitoring, e.g. Cyclosporin, Sodium valproate, Gentamycin; Drug screening for Cocaine, Cannabis etc; Endocrinology including growth hormone, the Free PSA(Prostatic Specific Antigen) and the PSA ratio; Serology and Cardiac testing and others.

Customer Service:
We will pick up your samples and deliver the results to you by any of the following means :

Pathcare PathProvider Service:

PathCare is pleased to announce the recent launch of is a locally developed internet driven system that allows clinicians access to their patients' results at any time, any place and as often as they choose.
Access to may be achieved via your personal computer or PDA, from home or office or whilst on holiday - from any place where there is internet access.
The new system will dramatically improve the response time on results by eliminating the time needed for printing, report delivery or for the laboratory to phone you.

Please note that Path Provider will not replace the existing conventional reporting system - you have the choice to use either one or the other or both.

PathProvider offers new functionality
• Quicker results
patients' results will be available 10 minutes after the pathologist approves them - no more waiting for deliveries!
• Cumulative reports and cumulative graphs
visually track patients' treatment response
• E-mail results
secure results, in PDF format, ready for further correspondence
• SMS facility
SMS patients directly, request further discussion or inform them that their results are normal.

PathProvider can reduce costs - by decreasing the need to phone the laboratory for results or to request copies. Results are available at your fingertips!

To receive results via , please complete the application form which you can download from our website (www.pathcarenigeria.com) or from your Client Services Officer. You will be activated and given a unique username and password once your details have been verified. For any queries regarding or the service, please contact your Client Services Officer.
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