BY SAMNUEL NABWIISO
KAMPALA-UGANDA -Metropolis Health care limited one of the India s leading medical diagnostic company has officially launched their state of the. art medical diagnostic Laboratory in Uganda
The Kampala based medical infrastructure which is valued at
$1milion has the capacity to conduct
maximum number of sample testing per day.
Avadhut Joshi the Chief Executive Officer International
Business, at the Metropolis Healthcare said the medical Laboratory has been
equipped with modern medical Laboratory diagnostic equipment’s.
"The Kampala based medical diagnostic Laboratory has
been equipped with state of the art diagnostic technological equipment’s to
deliver best in class patients services since the center also has best
qualified staffs to handle the patient’s services “The CEO said during the
Launch of the Diagnostic Testing Laboratory in Uganda.
He added that the opening of the Metropolis Medical
Laboratory in Uganda will contribute greatly to the Country’s health sector
because it is going to create avenues for medical technological transfer since
the company will be directly working with the local hospitals and clinicians to
ensure that they adopt the usages of modern technologies on the market which is
one way of building the country's medical
Human resources as the company has been doing in some countries
where the Metropolis Health care
operates.
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| Dr. Susan Nabadda cutting the ribon during tje opening of the Laboratory |
.Currently on the African Continent, the India’s based Metropolis
Healthcare medical diagnostic Health services provider company is currently
operating in South Africa, Kenya, Zambia and latest it has opened up its
footprint in Uganda.
Officiating at the grand opening of the medical diagnostic
center in Kampala,the Commissioner for Medical Laboratory Services in the
Ministry of Health,Dr Susan Nabadda said the coming on board by Metropolis
healthcare devices in Uganda will have positive impact on the country's health sector,
she said many Uganda's have been incurring huge expenditure to travel to India
for highly specialized medical diagnostic service's but with the coming of
Metropolis healthcare services provider all these will be done in Uganda.
"This is great achievement for us in the medical sector
because the center will offer services here locally this saves time for the
professionals to offer quality health services but also it lowers the cost of
accessing equality medical services by our patients who have been travelling to
India to get quality specialized medical services “She said.
She noted that government diagnostic centers alone cannot
offer the required services from members of the public thus the need for the
private sector to come on board and support government through establishing
medical diagnostic centers across the various parts of the country where the
medical diagnostic services are highly demanded.
"As Government we shall support the private sector to
ensure that they invest in the country's health sector" She promised.
Speaking at the same event, the founder of Metropolis
Healthcare Dr Sushil Shah noted that his company will continue investing in
those Countries where the demand for quality diagnostic medical services are
highly demanded.
"Our coming to Uganda was based on our research work where
we found that there were some gaps when it comes to access to quality
specialised medical diagnostic health services as company we are committed to
offer quality medical diagnostic related health services to the general public
in Uganda “He said.
In Uganda, Metropolis Healthcare services provider will offer
a comprehensive range of about 4000 clinical laboratory tests and profiles used
for predication, early detection, diagnostic, screening confirmation and
monitoring of diseases.
The diagnostic solutions that will be offered at the center
include routine semi specialty and supper specialty domains like Oncology,
Neurology, Gynecology Nephrology and many other related medical conditions.
