Your Lab Is Paying Another Lab to Treat Your Patients
A man walks into your casualty with chest pain. The doctor suspects a heart attack and orders a troponin test. Down the corridor, a woman who has been trying to conceive for two years is waiting on a fertility hormone panel. In the next room, an older patient needs a PSA and a thyroid check.
In many Kenyan facilities, all three samples end up in the same place: a cool box headed to another lab.
Then everyone waits. The patient waits for answers, the doctor waits to make a decision, and the money for those tests goes to a lab down the road. You did the work of attracting the patient, and someone else gets paid for the result.
Why These Tests Get Sent Out
Troponin, thyroid hormones, tumour markers and fertility hormones are all immunoassay tests. They measure tiny amounts of proteins and hormones in the blood, far too small for routine chemistry analysers to pick up.
For years, running them in-house meant buying a large, expensive analyser that only big laboratories could justify. Smaller hospitals and clinics accepted referrals as the cost of doing business.
But these are some of the most important tests in modern medicine:
❤️ Cardiac markers such as troponin help confirm or rule out a heart attack
🦋 Thyroid tests diagnose an over- or under-active thyroid
🎗️ Tumour markers such as PSA and CA125 support cancer screening and follow-up
👶 Fertility hormones guide couples through assessment and treatment
🔥 Inflammation markers such as PCT and CRP help doctors decide when antibiotics are really needed
When these results take days, care slows down, and patients start to wonder whether they should have gone somewhere else in the first place.
Meet the MQ60 Smart
The MQ60 Smart changes that equation. It’s a compact, fully automated immunoassay analyser that fits on a benchtop and brings these tests into your own lab.
It uses magnetic particle chemiluminescence (CLIA), the same type of technology found in large reference laboratories, scaled down for facilities of any size. Each test runs on its own single-use cartridge, so you open only what you need, with no wasted reagents and no hidden costs. With six independent channels, your team can run different tests side by side.
There’s also very little upkeep. The MQ60 Smart has no liquid tubing to clean or prime, it accepts serum, plasma, whole blood, urine and CSF, and it connects to your LIS/HIS so results flow straight to the clinician.
What Changes When You Bring Tests Home
The biggest change is speed. Results that once took days can come back the same day, so doctors make decisions while the patient is still in front of them.
The second is revenue. Every test you stop referring out is income that stays in your facility.
The third is harder to measure but just as valuable: trust. When clinicians know your lab can handle these tests, they stop looking elsewhere, and so do their patients.
Let’s Keep Your Patients and Your Revenue In-House
Sam-Tech Diagnostics supplies the MQ60 Smart with local installation, staff training and ongoing technical support, so your lab is running with confidence from day one.
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