HYDERABAD, Dec 26: A discount of 70 per cent is being provided to indoor patients and 50 per cent to outdoor patients at the diagnostic research laboratory of the Liaquat Medical Hospital, Hyderabad city branch, and other patients are being given 30 per cent discount.

This was said by the vice chancellor of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Professor Jan Mohammad Memon, while talking to the secretary, information, Sindh, Ashfaq Ahmed Memon, during his visit to the LUMHS on Tuesday.

The vice chancellor said that in due course of time, the laboratory facilities would be made available round the clock to meet the needs in any emergency.

Professor Mohammad Soomar Memon and Dr Khaliq Shaikh informed the secretary that it was the first well-equipped laboratory, with rare type of equipment in public sector hospitals in the province.

They said that ELISA analyzer, electrophosis/geio-intecble laboratory, hematology analyzer, blood cell separator and platelet agitator were being used at the laboratory, with computerized system being used for tests.

The professors said that only 20 per cent charges, as compared to those of the Aga Khan University Hospital, were being charged at the hospital.

They said that the laboratory services were being inter- linked between Hyderabad and Jamshoro with computerized process.