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Specimen Receiving Areas:


For specimens from

Specimen Receiving Area

  • Hamad General Hospital (HGH) inpatients
  • HGH Emergency Department patients
  • HGH Operating Theaters

Rapid Response Core Laboratory located in the Trauma and Emergency Center, 3rd floor
  • Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI)
  • The Women’s Wellness and Research Center
  • The Ambulatory Care Center

Central Specimen Receiving and Processing located in the Central Clinical Laboratory in Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, 3rd floor
  • Communicable Disease Center 
  • HGH outpatients
  • Primary Health Care Centers (PHCC)*
  • Government and Private Hospitals and Clinics

Central Specimen Receiving and Processing located in the Central Clinical Laboratory in Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, 3rd floor
  • NCCCR
  • Heart Hospital 
  • Rumailah Hospital

National Center for Cancer Care and Research (NCCCR) Laboratory located in NCCCR, 1st floor
  • Al Wakra Hospital
  • Primary Health Care Centers (PHCC)*
  • Mesaieed General Hospital
  • Pediatric Emergency Center- Airport
  • Al Wakra Community

Al Wakra Hospital Laboratory located in Al Wakra hospital, 1st floor
  • Al Khor Hospital.
  • Pediatric Emergency Center (PEC) Al Daayen and Al Shamal
  • Primary Health Care Centers (PHCC)*
  • Ras Laffan Clinic
  • Al Khor Community

Al Khor Hospital Laboratory located In Al Khor Hospital, ground floor
  • The Cuban Hospital
  • Primary Health Care Centers (PHCC)*
  • Red Crescent Workers Health Center
  • Dukhan Zekreet Clinic

The Cuban Hospital Laboratory
  • Pediatric Emergency Center (PEC) Al Sadd

PEC Al Sadd Laboratory
  • Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital

Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital
  • COVID-19 specimens for PCR testing only from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and non-HMC facilities

Covid-19 central receiving and processing located in Building 321, first floor, Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City
  • Referral laboratory specimens

Referral laboratory, Building 328, second floor right wing, Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City (during normal working hours of Sunday to Thursday 7am to 3pm)

Central Specimen Receiving and Processing located in the Central Clinical Laboratory in Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, 3rd floor (out of hours, weekends and holidays)

*As per agreed selected PHCCs

Notes:

During normal working hours (0700-1500 UTC Sunday to Thursday), specimens from Hamad General Hospital units should be sent directly to the Anatomic Pathology laboratory. Outside of these hours including weekends and holidays, send specimens to the Rapid Response Core Laboratory located in the Trauma and Emergency Center, 3rd floor.

Urgent specimens that are to be sent directly to the Anatomic Pathology laboratory are fresh specimens for frozen section, lymph node for lymphoma study, specimens in saline solution like kidney, skin and muscle biopsies. The laboratory shall be notified 24 hours before the procedure. An on-call mobile (55366143) is available during off-duty hours.

For Microbiology samples from HGH inpatients, the samples should be sent directly to the Microbiology specimen receiving area located in Hamad General Hospital, ground floor.

Newborn screening samples from private hospitals and metabolic laboratory samples collected in Rumailah Hospital phlebotomy should be sent directly to the Metabolic laboratory, Ground Floor, Rumailah Hospital.



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