The Department of Allied Health Sciences at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University celebrated, on Monday morning, the International Day of Biomedical Laboratory Science, which falls on April 15 of each year, under the patronage of Dr. Noncommunicable diseases: the role of biomedical laboratory scientists in detection, examination, and treatment.
The celebration of this day aims to increase public awareness of the role that biomedical laboratory scientists play in health care, especially in diagnosis, treatment, and development of the quality of health service provided, and to contribute to research and development in modern medical sciences, in addition to their permanent and direct interaction with various devices, chemicals and medical samples. And the necessity of constant concern for the safety of samples and taking the utmost safety measures in these laboratories.
On this occasion, an exhibition was held that included two parts, with the participation of students of the Biomedical Program and medical laboratory staff in the department, and the first part of the exhibition dealt with introducing the Biomedical Program in the Supportive Health Sciences Department of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the second part focused on the disciplines that fall under Biomedicine is histopathology, hematology, microbiology and immunology, genetics and biochemistry.
