Department of Clinical Haematology & Bone Marrow Transplantation

Clinics: Separate adult and pediatric haematology clinics provide treatment for various haematological disorders, including anaemia, thalassemia, hemoglobinopathies, thrombosis, bleeding disorders, inherited blood disorders, myeloma, myeloproliferative neoplasms, lymphomas, acute and chronic leukaemias, and bone marrow failure syndromes such as aplastic anaemia. These clinics also cater to bone marrow transplant patients.

Phlebotomy Area: For the convenience of outpatients, a lab sample collection area is located adjacent to the clinics.

Hematology Day Care Unit: This unit is designed for patients with blood diseases who do not require extended admissions and can be discharged on the same day. It serves patients requiring blood transfusion, intravenous drug administration, short-duration chemotherapies, and procedures like intrathecal chemotherapy, bone marrow aspiration, and trephine biopsies, among others.

Emergency Room: Dedicated rooms for haematological emergencies are available on the same floor to ensure prompt healthcare delivery to critical and immune-compromised patients. This setup helps avoid routine delays often encountered in typical hospital emergency rooms.

General Hematology Unit: The general haematology unit provides inpatient care to individuals with anaemia, bleeding and clotting disorders, and blood cancer patients who are not at high risk of infection from the surrounding environment.

Isolation/Leukemia Unit: This specialized unit focuses on treating acute leukaemia and immune-compromised patients requiring single isolation rooms to protect them from infections.

Bone Marrow Transplant Unit: The Bone Marrow Transplant unit meets high standards of healthcare for severely immune-compromised patients at the greatest risk of infection from their environment. It offers separate single rooms equipped with HEPA filters, unidirectional airflow, and positive pressure maintenance, all maintained with strict hygiene protocols.

Consultative Hematology: Patients admitted for services other than haematology who require expert advice on co-existing blood-related issues are attended to by haematology specialists who guide to facilitate their management.

Sterile Pharmacy: Pharmacists in the sterile pharmacy prepare parenteral medications in the required dilutions and concentrations within a pressure-maintained, HEPA-filtered room equipped with a laminar flow hood.

Chemotherapy Pharmacy: In the chemotherapy pharmacy area, trained pharmacists prepare chemotherapies in appropriate dosages with strict safety measures in a pressure-maintained, HEPA-filtered room equipped with a laminar flow chemotherapy hood.

Dispatching Pharmacy: Qualified pharmacists in the dispatching area issue medications to patients following thorough quality control checks.

Clinical Pharmacists: Clinical pharmacists actively participate in haematology clinics and in-patient rounds, providing valuable input and advice on patients’ medications and dose adjustments.

Stem Cell Bio-banking: Our service is proud to offer proper stem cell laboratory facilities for both short-term and long-term storage of stem cells.

Blood Irradiation Facility: The haematology service at Dow University is the first in the public sector of the entire province to provide blood irradiation services. This critical service helps prevent transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease, a potentially lethal complication of blood transfusion in vulnerable patients.