DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i04.008

Pages: 1243-1247

In today’s era because of rapid growth in medical research and technology, one can hardly imagine a health care system without the contribution of laboratory technician. The laboratory analysis of blood and other body fluids play a definitive role both in the diagnosis and the treatment of disease as well as in routine preventive medicine. The educational requirement for a clinical laboratory technician has evolved over time and expansion of the scope of the field. Today in India after completion secondary education they are entitled for this course but due to lack of both government and private institutions they are unable to do the course. Our aim of study was to assess the number of institutions interested to run paramedical DMLT/DMRT courses in the state of Odisha, to identify gaps in regards to infrastructure, equipments and manpower in these new upcoming institutions and to suggest minimum standard requirements for establishment of an institution.