KARACHI: The Health and Medical Services Department of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has decided to establish a model “KMC Diagnostic Laboratory” in F.B Area. The proposed KMC Diagnostic Laboratory will be established in a five-room building situated in FB Area’s Block-6 near Nazeer Hussain Memorial Kidney Center. The laboratory will be equipped with x-ray, ultrasound, laser and other advanced equipment to diagnose multiple diseases under one roof. The multiple diagnostic facilities like PCR to detect dengue, Congo, Chikungunya, malaria and other viral and infectious diseases will be provided at the diagnostic laboratory. The KMC Diagnostic Laboratory will be made operational within a month, where poor and destitute people can avail diagnostic facilities free-of-cost. Technical staff for the laboratory will be hired or arranged from the KMC hospitals. According to senior director Health and Medical Services, KMC, Dr Muhammad Ali Abbasi, KMC has planned to establish the diagnostic laboratory in FB Area to provide advance diagnostic facilities to citizens free-of-cost. He said that the laboratory will set up for public within a month. “Necessary equipment and machinery had been arranged to make the laboratory operational,” Dr Abbasi said.