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College of Medical and Health Technologies Organizing Scientific Symposium on How to Make Pathological Slides
2024 - 11 - 10

The Department of Medical Laboratory Technology at the College of Medical and Health Technologies at University of Alkafeel held a scientific symposium : “How to Make Pathological Slides”, on Sunday 11/10/2023. The activity was implemented by Prof.

Ali Abdul Razzaq Al-Sayegh, as the symposium aimed to teach the mechanism of making tissue slides and methods of preparing them in medical laboratories.

     The symposium dealt with how to prepare tissue slides from samples received from surgical operating rooms, as the samples go through precise steps starting with fixation in 10% formalin, followed by treatment using a microtome after placing the sample in liquid paraffin. Hematoxylin and eosin staining techniques were explained, in addition to the process of drying the slide and reading pathological changes to diagnose diseases according to tissue changes.

   This symposium came within the efforts of the Department of Medical Laboratory Technology to enhance scientific knowledge and develop the skills of students and specialists in the field of medical laboratories, and to shed light on modern methods in histological diagnosis.