Arsho Medical Laboratories PLC

Arsho Medical Laboratories (AML) is a registered trademark of a private diagnostic laboratory practice in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. AML is focused on delivering quality diagnostic testing in the most cost-effective way. AML takes a good percentage share of the private Medical laboratory market in Ethiopia. The history of Arsho Medical Laboratories extends back to 1972 when the Armenian Dr Arshavier Terzian, immigrated to Ethiopia and formed the first private medical laboratory practice in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Arshavier practices grew gradually over the years. In time Arsho Medical Laboratory established the medical laboratory practice became a well-known and respected name in the local medical environment. Dr. Arshavier passed away in 2002, then immediately after his death, the business has been taken over by his inheritors, his son and daughter who reside in the USA at the time. In 2004 both the son and daughter transferred their holdings to three Ethiopian nationals and left the business. The Ethiopian owners with different non-medical (social science) professional backgrounds started to manage the business in collaboration with medical professional staff. Since then they introduced many operational innovations, which contributed significantly to the accelerated growth of the laboratory practice in Addis Ababa. Since 2004, Arsho Medical Laboratory has been undertaking further expansion of different branches and giving a modern touch to the existing practice. Currently, Arsho Medical Laboratory has ISO 15189 Accreditation, by ENAO (Ethiopian National Accreditation Office) since 2012 in four schemes; clinical chemistry, hematology, serology, and immunology. The general services rendered by Arsho Medical Laboratory cover most disciplines of diagnostic Medical laboratory services i.e. Clinical Chemistry, pathology, Histo - and Cytopathology, Microbiology, Molecular Diagnostics, Serology, Virology and voluntary counseling and testing (VCT). The Director of Diagnostic Medical Laboratory, The Quality Assurance Manager and discipline-specific Laboratory professional’s, coordinators, supervise these services and departments. Referral Services Laboratory tests that are not performed (Kinship and Others) in Ethiopia are referring to Bioscientia of Germany and Path Care of South Africa Cellmark UK. With our main business in the city, we also offer outside service (Mobile Service) and have a mobile team especially trained and experienced to undertake this work. Support Services Arsho Medical Laboratory employs Professional Nursing and Phlebotomists who are responsible for collecting specimens in the labs, in the customer centers, private hospitals and medical centers. Specimens are transported from the branches, External customer clinics and hospitals to central laboratories by AML Courier Service. The Marketing department which is responsible for the day to day activities of customer handling works very hard to meet customer satisfaction.…