IV.

TABLE 69 (Cont'd)

AIDS Virus (HIV) Antibody Testing

TABLE 69(a)

WORK OF THE INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY AT PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL 1985 AND 1986

1985

1986

1985 (April

December)

Source of specimens

No tested

No

M

No.

+ve

tested

1986

No.

Number of Tests

1.

Haematology

+VE

A) General Haematology

923 438

555 582

Referrals from Government

214

1 201

3

B) Coagulation Investigation

19 849

23 547

hospitals and clinics

C)

Special Haematology

2 877

3 049

D)

Referrals from private

81

5

181

Blood Group Serology

5 265

5 395

7

E)

Miscellaneous

4 906

7 080

practitioners and subvented

F) Investigation of Hb Disorders

2 267

4 783

hospitals

Attendances at social

7 911

5

27 179

2

2.

Blood Banking

hygiene clinics

Haemophiliacs

97

37

100

8

A) Examination done in Blood Bank B) Miscellaneous

87 200

210 712

130 338 279 735

Intravenous drug abusers

541

582

0

Referrals from Family

41

44

O

Planning Association

3. Microbiology

A) Bacteriology

Health care personnel

32

189

Total

8 917

53

29 476

• 18

B) Mycology

C) Farasitology

D) Bacterial, mycotic and parasitic immunology E) Urinalysis and pregnancy test

136 830

184 953

3 566

3 969

4 638

4 996

3 729

5 439

18 033

24 099

20

Morbid Anatomy

A) Surgical Pathology

33 256

(Cases)

B) Frozen Section

(Cases)

C) Autopay

(Cases)

7 256

(274)

D) Neuropathology Autopsy case

(Cases)

E) Cytology

(Cases)

F) Electron Microscopy

(Specimens)

C) Cytogenetics

224 (224) 123

(Specimens)

(12 286)

2 961

(414)

40 538 (11 154)

3 325

(491)

9 721

(381)

11

1 080

(216)

29 108

(10 686)

(75)

1 702

(380)

36 579 (13 582)

238 (238) 112

(112)

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