MDC's Mission: To be the Premier Medical Diagnostic Center of Kurdistan Region, offering extensive Pathology Laboratory and Radiology Services to the medical community of Kurdistan and greater Iraq.
MDC's Commitment to Quality: Striving for quality services that meets international standards for our end users


Medya Diagnostic Centre (MDC) is located on 60 Meter Road, east of the Shorsh Overpass, Next to New City Mall.
The building is a purpose built 7000sqm facility provided by the Kurdistan Regional Government, Raziana Company has been contracted to manage and operate the facility with the aim of providing an International Standard and Quality Diagnostic Pathology and Medical Imaging service.

MDC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are currently working with a Jordanian consultancy company to assist us with CAP (College of American Pathology) accreditation towards the end of 2012. This process is already in an advanced stage.

Accreditation signified compliance with international standards and essential criteria as follows:
ISO15189:2007 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.
ISO9001:2000 Quality management system - Requirements.
ISO9000:2005 Quality management system - Fundamentals and Vocabulary.
European Communities Confederation of Clinical Chemistry: Essential Criteria for Quality system of medical laboratory EUR J Clin Chem Clin Bioch 1997:35:121-132.
European Communities Confederation of Clinical Chemistry: Additional Essential Criteria for Quality system of medical laboratory EUR J Clin Chem Clin Bioch 1998:36:249-252.

What CAP (College of American Pathologists) can mean for you as a clinician
CAP Mission Statement
‘The College of American Pathologists, the leading organization of board-certified pathologists, serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating excellence in the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine.’
Not all laboratories are CAP accredited, in fact only a few. CAP is the ‘watch dog’ of Clinical Pathology Laboratories daily operations and provides registered Laboratories with documentation and quality assurance measurements that meet their criteria of excellence. Results therefore that are generated under their auspices guarantees the accurate reliable and trustworthy values that can be use for diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, screening, prognosis and therapy of patients in general terms.
Please note that Clinical Laboratories that is not registered with CAP or any International accreditation organization can thus not provide their client physicians with the high standards of service delivery and rely only on their own quality checks.

Clinical laboratories quality statement

The Clinical laboratories shall strive to ensure that all services are carried to the highest standards in line with the MDC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine vision, mission and core values ensuring that services continuously meet and exceed the stated or implied expectations of customers.
The Department is committed to the quality standards to operate accordance with both working towards the ISO 15189 CAP quality standards with whom we plan to register and fully accredited with at the end of 2012.

Quality objectives

• To ensure that all laboratory staff is train to a level of familiarity with the quality system appropriate to the individual’s degree of responsibility.
• To establish quality performance indicators measurements that is consistent with expectations of our customers.
• To establish accountability and traceability by documenting all aspects of data generation and through an appropriate document control system.
• To verify reliability of results through internal quality Control (IQC) procedures designed to measure accuracy, precision, reproducibility, specificity and sensitivity.
• To participate in External Quality Control (EQC) schemes (Proficiency Testing) in order to compare the laboratories performance with peer laboratories.
• To improve and validate laboratory methodologies by participating in methods validation collaborative tests.
• To evaluate results and simultaneously define specifications for corrective actions to prevent out-of-control situations.
• To minimize equipment and instrument performance and minimize downtime through application of daily and scheduled preventative maintenance, routine monitoring and calibration and maintain strict equipment logs of all analytical instrumentation.
• To participate in inter-laboratory auditing, inviting external auditors for inspection of all laboratory activities.