1. Fasting blood glucose Flouride oxalate-FB
2. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) FB
3. Glycated haemoglobin LH
4. Total cholesterol LH
5. High density lipoprotein (HDL) LH
6. Low density lipoprotein (LDL) LH
7. Triglyceride LH

1. Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) PB
2. Leutinizing hormone (LH) PB
3. Oestrogen/ Oestradiol PB
4. Progesterone PB
5. Testosterone PB
6. β-HCG PB

1. Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) PB
2. Triiodothyronine (T₃) PB
3. Tetraiodothyroxine (T₄) PB
4. Free T₃ PB
5. Free T₄ PB
6. Thyroglobulin PB

1. Calcitonin PB
2. Calcium LH
3. Inorganic phosphate LH

1. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) PB
2. Cortisol PB

• Acid phosphatase LH
• Protein electrophoresis PB
• Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) test profile
1. CSF glucose FB
2. CSF protein LH
• Urinary protein UB
• Occult blood test UB
• Neat pregnancy test UB
• Dilution pregnancy test UB
• Prostate specific antigen (PSA) PB
• Insulin PB
• Microalbumin LH
• Lithium
• Magnesium LH
• Alpha-feto protein PB
• Bence Jones protein UB
• Total iron binding capacity (TIBC) PB
• Ca-125 PB
• C-reactive protein PB

Glucose, protein, bilirubin, ketone bodies, urobilinogen, porphobilinogen, bile salts, pH, specific gravity, Urine osmolality UB

These are tests that are attended to during call duty hours, weekends and public holidays

1. Glucose
2. Sodium
3. Potassium
4. Bicarbonate
5. Direct bilirubin
6. Total bilirubin
7. CSF glucose
8. CSF protein
9. Urea

1. Proper patients’ preparation is highly essential for quality results, thus all concerned with laboratory requests should kindly adhere to adequate patients’ preparation

Such tests include the following: OGTT, 24hr urine collection, occult blood test, pregnancy test, fertility hormone profile, cortisol,

The starting time of collection (not later than 7.00am) should be noted. The first morning urine should be discarded. All urine voided throughout the 24 hour period should be collected into the special container (keg) containing preservative (earlier added from the Laboratory). At the end of 24 hours period (e.g 7.00pm), the next urine sample voided should be added even if the patient does not feel the urge to urinate immediately. The accompanying blood sample should be collected not later than 1 hour prior to the end of the urine collection.

A normal evening meal should be taken the night before the test is scheduled which should not be later than 8.00pm. After this no water or food should be taken until the end of the test the following morning. Fasting blood sample should be collected not later than 8.00 am on the day of the investigation and the sample should be clearly labelled 'FASTING' with time of collection written on the sample bottle. Then patient should eat his/her normal breakfast. The exact time of finishing the breakfast should be noted on a paper and patient should not eat or drink anything till the two hours postprandial sample is collected. The postprandial sample should be collected exactly 2hours after the breakfast and be labelled ‘POSTPRANDIAL’. The two samples should be brought to the laboratory immediately after collection. If urine sample is requested, it should be collected before the breakfast is taken.

The patient should avoid blood meal, blood containing meal, blood tonic, multivitamins supplements minimum of three days before stool sample collection. In addition, female patient should not be menstruating

Early morning urine should be collected in clean sample container.

Proper sample collection is an integral pre-requisite to quality laboratory results.

Samples from out-patients will be collected between 8.00-1.00pm

Samples from in-patients will be collected 24 hour round but requests that come in after 1.00pm (Monday-Friday) will be treated the following day except when such samples are for emergency requests.

The laboratory should be pre-informed of any special request (e.g lithium) or when any special procedures involving laboratory collaboration are to be carried out e.g organ transplant.

The integrity of sample reaching the laboratory is essential for quality results. The following steps are to be adhered to for proper sample transportation.

1. Sample should be transported with a hold in upright position to avoid spillage
2. Samples must be transported at a low temperature in a container
3. Samples should be transported to the laboratory not more than 1hour after collection.
4. Infectious samples should be adequately labelled with “biohazard tape”.
5. from the above, it is clear that only trained personnel can effectively transport samples to the laboratory.

Therefore, the laboratory will henceforth accept in-patients samples transported by only trained personnels.

Standard practice and demand for quality results, necessitates that unsuitable samples be rejected from the reception point.

Following are the criteria for sample rejection:

1. unlabeled or mislabeled sample
2. duplicate samples
3. leaking samples blood/sample stained request form(s)
4. inappropriate sample source (urine collected instead of blood)
5. sample collected at a wrong time
6. sample collected in a wrong sample bottle
7. delayed sample transport time
8. inadequate sample volume collected
9. request form inappropriately or not fully completed
10. unsuitable sample (e.g haemolysed, clotted, samples)

Rejected sample(s) will be withheld in the laboratory and documented. The request form(s) will be returned with reason for rejection written on it for a repeat sample with new request form.

The following numbers can be reached in case of any enquiry:
Director (MLS): +234 8152092781,
Desk number: