1. Vision:Department of Pathology helps the medical field by educating the medical students to       understand the etiopathogenesis of the disease. As pathology links basic sciences with clinical manifestations and plays an important role in the diagnosis, management and prognosis. Therefore, all theupdated laboratory medicine facilities will be provided with special attention to excel in development of all the sub specialties like Histopathology, Cytopathology, Hematopathology, Immunopathology, oncopathology and autopsy pathology.
2. Mission statement:The objectives of our department are to provide quality medical education and to refine undergraduate/postgraduate medical students to meet the country’s need for highly qualified doctors and medical teachers. We aim to serve patient needs bysetting diagnostic facilities with the advanced technologies to improve the area of laboratory medicine.Our mission is to establish a centre of excellence in faculty and technician training, diagnosis and research.
3. Services Available in the department:

• Anemias, lymphadenopathy, breast and thyroid lesions are amongst most common disorders being investigated in general OPD patients
• Sample collection with facility of one-time multiple blood sampling
• Complete Hemogram with turnaround time of 24 hours
• Fine needle aspiration Cytology
• Daily Quality control of cytochemical stains

Department Schedule

CYTOLOGY

HEMATOLOGY

HISTOPATHOLOGY

5. Facilities available for the research
   1. 1. Brief description:The Department of Pathology is equipped with facility of 5-part automated cell counter with 36 parameters. This equipment is upgradable to attach with fully automated slide maker and slide Stainer. Database capacity of 60,000 sets of results and graph can help in providing huge data for analysis.
6. Expansion planned for the future:

Clinical Services:

1. 1. To provide histopathology, histochemistry services within short turnaround time
   2. To begin immunopathology laboratory with facilities for autoimmune profile, immunofluorescence, immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry.
   3. To provide facility for intra-operative diagnosis (imprint cytology and frozen section).
   4. To establish facility of HLA and CDC for organ transplantation under immunopathology.
   5. To set up a special hematology laboratory for flow cytometricimmunophenotyping of hematolymphoid malignancies and non-neoplastic hematological disorders.
   6. To establish a specialized laboratory with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for the diagnosis of hemoglobinopathies.
   7. To set up a comprehensive diagnostic facility for coagulation and bleeding disorders.
   8. To set up immunofluorescence laboratory for Nephropathology andDermatopathology.
   1. To develop cytogenetic laboratory and Molecular Pathology Laboratory to perform fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) and detailed analyses on nucleic acids.
   10. To establish electron microscopy.
   11. To participate in EQAS programmes of NABL accredited laboratories and others.
   12. To start MD course, fellowship and certificate courses for the training of Pathologists and technicians in various subspecialties of Pathology.