• Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) include individuals involved with the delivery of health or healthcare-related services, with qualification and competence in therapeutic, diagnostic, curative, preventive, and/or rehabilitative interventions. They work in multidisciplinary health teams in varied healthcare settings including doctors (physicians and specialists), nurses and public health officials to promote, protect, treat, and/or manage a person's („s) physical, mental, social, emotional, environmental health and holistic well-being.”
• The quality of medical care has improved tremendously in the last few decades due to the advances in technology, thus creating fresh challenges in the field of healthcare. It is now widely recognized that health service delivery is a team effort involving both clinicians and non-clinicians and is not the sole duty of physicians and nurses.1 Professionals that can competently handle sophisticated machinery and advanced protocols are now in high demand.
• Medical Laboratory Science is an important subject in the field of Medicine. In each system of Medicine, diagnosis of the disease is a primary step because no treatment is possible without a proper diagnosis. It is the Medical Laboratory Technocrat, who performs this important task with various scientific tools and techniques
• In today‘s modern world of technology, the diagnosis, treatment & prognosis of various diseases depends upon the results of investigations carried out in a clinical laboratory. Thus, these professionals play a key role in the field of health care. Medical Laboratory Science has played a significant role in the advancement of the field of Medicine, especially in the past few decades. As modern medicine becomes more of a team effort, the Medical Laboratory Scientist/Technologist is an important member and integral part of the Medical team.