Laboratory Facility

LAB Facilities

Laboratory:  Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory

Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, Bangladesh of BITID was inaugurated on 9th April’ 2015 by Mr. Engineer Mosharraf Hossain MP, Honourable Minister of Housing & Public Affairs of Govt of the people’s Republic of Bangladesh & Mr. Alain Merieux, President of Fondation Merieux.
The laboratory is a donation from the Fondation Merieux to the people of Bangladesh, as part of a MOU between the Foundation and the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Gov. of Bangladesh. All over the world there are about fourteen laboratories donated by Fondation Merieux. Rodolphe Merieux Laboratorty, Bangladesh is one of them.
Fondation Mérieux is an independent family foundation situated in Lyon, France. It was established in 1967 by Docteur Charles Mérieux, in honour of his father Marcel Mérieux, student of Louis Pasteur and founder of the Institut Mérieux in 1897. It was awarded official charitable status in 1976. The Fondation has dedicated over the generations for passing on their vision of serving public health worldwide. Fondation Mérieux has played a unifying role catalyzing initiatives with the common goal of fighting infectious diseases worldwide.
The laboratory has a state of the art facility of 250m2, which includes a Biosafety Level 2(BSL2) & Biosafety Level 3(BSL3) microbiology laboratory in conjunction with a general biochemistry laboratory and a molecular biology laboratory. The main idea behind constructing the lab was to make it as a reference laboratory for the whole country.
The laboratory design is based on the ISO- 14644 Part 4 & 1. ISO-14644 part 4 standard is for design and construction. ISO- 14644 part 1 standard is for classification of air cleanliness by particle concentration.
The rational of Rodolphe Merieux Laboratorty (RML) is to give Chittagong regional health system the capabilities to enhance its diagnostic capabilities.

 Mission and Vision of Rodolphe Merieux Laboratorty (RML)

• Provide quality diagnosis in a safe environment
• Prevention of laboratory acquired infection
• Prevention of environmental pollution from biohazardous agents
• Increasing vulnerable population’s access to diagnostics

Committed to

• Enhancing Local research capability
• Applied research on emerging diseases
• Build up the human resource by proper training & guidance
• Encouraging Dialogue & knowledge sharing
• Ensure QMS(Quality Management System)
• Practicing Biosafety & Biosecurity

Sophisticated Biomedical Instrument of Rhodolphe Merieux Laboratory

Serial no	Name of Instrument	Utility/ Tests done	Image
1	Bact Alert automated blood Culture Machine	Blood culture for both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria
2	Electrolyte Analyzer	Detection of serum Electrolytes
3	Fluorescent Microscopy	AFB detection
4	Gene X-part machine	Molecular detection of AFB & Rifampicin resistance gene detection
5	HbA1C Analyzer, Quo-Lab	HbA1C detection for Diabetes Mellitus
6	Hematology Analyzer, Sysmex	Complete Blood Count
7	ELISA READER	Manual immunoassay system. Detect infectious agents & immunochemistry
8	Mini vidas	Fully automated multi parametric immunoassay system. Detect infectious agents, hormones, biomarkers & others.
9	Twincubator for LPA	Molecular detection of rifampicin & INH resistant gene detection
10	VITEK -2 Automated ID machine and AST	Bacterial organism identification & antimicrobial sensitivity testing by MIC method
11	Conventional PCR	Molecular detection of Infectious agents
12	Real time PCR	Automated detection & diagnosis of microbial DNA/RNA
13	Bio-Fire	Fully automated multiplex PCR system for molecular detection of multiple organisms from single specimen within two hours.
14	ABG Analyzer

Price List of Laboratory Test Recommended by Govt.

HBsAg and HCV (Confirmatory), T3, T4 could be done if reagents available.

COVID-19 Test Start date: 26.03.2020

TB Test at available is profile.