HAEMATOLOGY BLOOD TRANSFUSION – Faculty of Clinical Sciences

Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion

Vision

To provide comprehensive clinical and laboratory services to all patients with blood and blood related diseases, to teach this science to students, physicians and scientists and strive to excel in these aspects through research and development.

Mission

To be a world-class research-intensive department providing teaching and facilitating learning of the highest quality in haematological blood transfusion sciences. To focus our developmental efforts and resources towards training and mentoring the next generation of academic physicians and scientists through our undergraduate and postgraduate programs, provide the highest quality clinical care for patients and develop diagnostic and therapeutic tools while applying both local and contemporary content to our basic and translational research programs.

Welcome

The Department of Haematology & Blood Transfusion of the College is entrenched in a rich tradition of excellence built upon the legacies of leaders that laid a firm foundation over the years. We are proud of this tradition and it is our goal today to further that reputation by remaining on the cutting edge of new developments in medical education, scientific and clinical research and clinical care.

The Department is strategized to focusing our developmental efforts and resources on the three missions of the department: teaching, biomedical research, and clinical service.

The educational mission of the Department continues to be to train future leaders in academic medicine. This we aim to achieve by continuously adapting our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching methods to meet all laid down standards both locally and internationally.