Palermo Cervello Hospital, the infectious seroimmunology laboratory has been renovated

L’hospital company “Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia – Cervello” of Palermo has completed the renovation work on the infectious seroimmunology laboratory (located on the ground floor of building “B” of the “Vincenzo Cervello” hospital), which fall within the scope of the “Emergency and building renovation works of the pavilions and external areas owned by the Palermo company referred to in the investment plan. Financial year 2022″.

“The project – explains the engineer Vincenzo Nicastri director of the technical service of the AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello of Palermo – is was drawn up by the company’s Technical Office, which also took care of the management of the works, and was mainly focused on the adaptation of the systems, as well as on the new distribution of the premises. The latter house new, latest generation fully automated machinery. The new laboratory logistics were created adjacent to the current laboratory dedicated to molecular microbiological diagnostics and allows the two sectors of the Microbiology UOC (complex operational unit) to be connected, so as to optimize workflows and improve worker comfort . In addition to this, it notes the significant improvement of existing technological systems, with a special focus on electrical and lighting systems, to ensure the correct functioning of the new machinery hosted and to comply with current legislation on energy efficiency”.

“The innovation of the laboratory represents an important milestone for the advancement of scientific research and medical diagnosis – adds the extraordinary commissioner of the AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello of Palermo, Roberto Colletti -. Infectious seroimmunology, in fact, is fundamental for the early and precise diagnosis of a wide range of infectious diseases, allowing timely and targeted therapeutic interventions to improve the health and well-being of patients. The laboratory is equipped with cutting-edge instrumentation and uses the most modern diagnostic investigation techniques in the field of infectious seroimmunology. Thanks to this cutting-edge technology, it will be possible to guarantee extremely high quality analyses, characterized by a high degree of specificity and accuracy in the results. The acquisition of the new fully automated chemiluminescence analyzers, the production heart of the new laboratory, capable of carrying out the entire sample analysis process and of the new pre-analytical machinery, will make the response to the needs of the territory highly efficient, while at the same time guaranteeing a high standard of technical analytical quality. Therefore, this is a very significant step forward, in line with our mission to provide cutting-edge diagnostic solutions to address emerging medical challenges”.