SRL Diagnostics is a diagnostics company based in India providing diagnostic services in
pathology and
radiology. SRL Diagnostics has its headquarters and corporate office in
Gurgaon
Gurgaon (pronunciation: �ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: �ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
.
History
SRL was founded in 1995 by brothers
Shivinder Mohan Singh
Shivinder Mohan Singh is an Indian businessman and erstwhile billionaire with Fortis Healthcare, Religare, and Ranbaxy Laboratories. Singh was the non-executive vice chairman of Fortis Healthcare, an Indian company. He is currently under arrest ...
and
Malvinder Mohan Singh
Malvinder Mohan Singh is a businessman who is now under arrest for criminal breach of trust. He, along with his brother Shivinder Mohan Singh (also under arrest), has many cases of fraud registered against him.
Singh is the former chairman a ...
as SRL Ranbaxy, a division of
Ranbaxy Laboratories. It became the first pathology company in India to receive accreditation from
National Accreditation Board.
In 2008, SRL Ranbaxy was renamed as Super Religare Laboratories.
In 2010, SRL acquired Piramal Diagnostic Services and its network of 107 laboratories from
Piramal Healthcare for 600 crore.
In 2011,
Fortis Healthcare completed the acquisition of 74.59% stake in SRL. After being acquired by Fortis, the company rebranded itself as SRL Diagnostics.
In 2021, SRL acquired the remaining stake in its
Kerala-based joint venture, DDRC, for 350 crore. With the addition of DDRC's 220 labs to its lab network, SRL became the biggest pathology lab chain in India with a total of 430 labs.
Operations
SRL has two reference labs one in
Goregaon
Goregaon ( �oːɾeɡaːʋ is a suburb of Mumbai city, in the Mumbai Suburban district of India. It has a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Line. An extension of the Harbour Line was completed in 2018 because of w ...
(Mumbai), and one in
Gurgaon
Gurgaon (pronunciation: �ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: �ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
(Haryana), India. The company has more than 418 networking laboratories, including four "Centers of Excellence", 26 radiology/imaging centers, 40 NABL accredited, and four CAP-accredited labs and a footprint spanning over 9000 collection points in India. Along with this, the company also has large labs in
Dubai,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
and
Nepal, and about 70 different collection points in various countries outside India.
SRL Diagnostics claims to offer more than 3,500 different tests in
pathology,
radiology,
wellness,
occupational health and
clinical trials and also carries out more than 107,000 tests in a day. SRL Diagnostics operates diagnostic centres, collection centres, and laboratories. SRL Diagnostics also offers tests in pathology covering
biochemistry,
immunology,
herpetology
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, clinical pathology,
histopathology
Histopathology (compound of three Greek words: ''histos'' "tissue", πάθος ''pathos'' "suffering", and -λογία '' -logia'' "study of") refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease. Spe ...
and
immunohistochemistry
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is the most common application of immunostaining. It involves the process of selectively identifying antigens (proteins) in cells of a tissue section by exploiting the principle of antibodies binding specifically to an ...
,
microbiology
Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...
,
molecular biology,
cytogenetics, and flow
cytometry.
References
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Health care companies of India
Laboratories in India