KARACHI: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Abbott Laboratories Pakistan on Tuesday for “Total Lab Automation” equipment placement and product supply at Dow University Ojha Campus, Karachi.
Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat Ul Ebad Khan was the Chief Guest on the occasion which was held today at Governor House.
The MoU was inked by DUHS Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof. Masood Hameed Khan and Abbott Country Manager Habib Ahmed.
Governor in his address appreciated the efforts of the VC and his dedicate team for his dynamic leadership qualities in the establishment and the developments of the University in a very short span of time. He stressed towards the research and asked the pharma companies to come forward and join the universities to enhance research.
Prof. Dr. Masood Hameed Khan sharing his views on the occasion said that DUHS planned to acquire latest technology of Total Lab Automation to meet the international standard, minimize human error and increase the working capacity.
Habib Ahmed on the occasion said that this system provides complete automation for all pre analytic, analytics and post analytic processing steps. “The principle approach of the establishment of this is to improve quality, reducing turnaround times for laboratory test results, save money and to improve productivity,” he said.
He further said that the system was designed for the current workload and keeping in mind the future growth in volume. Initially the total capacity of the system was to handle 1200 patients per day and would increase upto 7200 patients per day. “This project will be for 7 years and it involves a total upfront investment of US$2.5MM on the part of Abbott Diagnostics in the form of hardware installation only,” he added.
Furthermore he said that the basis of the partnership was to provide world class, high quality diagnostic results to the masses at the most affordable cost, by implementing state of the art Total Lab Automation solution which would enable them to get accurate results in the most effective and efficient way.
Total Lab automation system will be the first in the Country for Abbott Diagnostics Pakistan, although this is a long established global solution which is US FDA approved with many live accounts across the globe including US, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. We are strongly committed to make this partnership a really great success and a practical role model for others to replicate.
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