Clinical laboratory · Matara
Careful hands, exact numbers.
A clinical laboratory in Matara. Trained phlebotomists take the sample quickly and carefully, most results are ready the same day, and your report arrives as a private link on your phone.
Why people come to us
Trained phlebotomists
The needle is handled by somebody who does it all day, not by whoever happens to be free. Quick, careful, and the right tube first time, which is the part of the visit most people are actually dreading.
Most results the same day
Routine blood work is reported in hours rather than tomorrow, and you are told when to expect it before you pay, not after.
Your report, by SMS
A private link reaches your phone as soon as the report is signed. No second trip, no waiting at a counter for a piece of paper.
Home collection when you need it
Most patients simply walk in, and for routine work that is the quickest way. When somebody cannot be moved, or a morning will not stretch to a queue, we come to the house instead.
What we do
Six departments, one sample, one report.
A single visit covers most of what a family doctor will ask for. Where a test needs a specialist reference laboratory, we send it, track it and report it back under the same number.
Haematology
Blood counts, haemoglobin and sedimentation rate, run on an automated analyser and reviewed before release.
Clinical Chemistry
Sugar, lipids, liver, kidney, electrolytes and cardiac markers from a single serum tube.
Serology and Immunology
Inflammatory and immune markers, including CRP, ASO titre and rheumatoid factor.
Urinalysis
Full reports, microscopy, microalbumin and culture, with containers issued by the lab.
Cardiology
Twelve lead ECG recorded on site, traced and reported the same day.
Endocrinology
Thyroid, fertility and steroid hormones, vitamin D and PSA.
The visit
What actually happens, start to finish.
Four steps. Nobody should have to guess at any of them.
- 01
You tell us what you need
Walk in with a prescription, send a photograph of it on WhatsApp, or ask us to come to you. We register you once, and your number stays yours.
- 02
The sample is taken
By a trained phlebotomist, sitting down, and labelled in front of you. At the lab or at your house, it is the same hands and the same care.
- 03
It is tested and checked
Controls are run before any patient result is released, and a result that disagrees with itself is repeated and looked at by a person before it goes anywhere.
- 04
The report reaches you
A private link arrives by SMS. Open it with your date of birth. Printed copies are at the counter whenever you want one, for years afterwards.
Your report
On your phone, the moment it is signed.
Most of the waiting people remember is not the testing. It is the second trip to collect a piece of paper. That trip does not exist here.
It arrives as soon as it is ready
Not at the end of the day, and not when somebody gets round to it. The SMS goes the moment the report is signed.
Only you can open it
The message names no test, so a lock screen tells a stranger nothing, and the link asks for your date of birth before it shows a single result.
A dangerous result is a telephone call
We do not wait for you to open a link. We ring, we record who we spoke to, and we tell your doctor.
Printed copies, whenever you want
Years later, with your report number, there is a copy at the counter. Nothing is lost because a phone was lost.
Who runs the bench
A named scientist, not a signature stamp.
Every report carries the name of the person who authorised it. In a small laboratory the person who ran your sample and the person who signed for it are often the same, and the report says so rather than hiding it.
Suvani Jayawardhana
Chief Medical Laboratory Scientist
- BSc (Hons) in Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
- MSc in Biochemistry, University of Kelaniya
Home collection
If you cannot come in, we will come to you.
Most patients walk in and are on their way in minutes, and for routine work that is still the quickest thing to do. When it is not possible, home collection is there: for an elderly parent, for anyone who should not be moved, and for a morning that will not stretch to a queue.
Journal
Plain answers to the questions we are asked at the counter.
16 September 2026
Why the order we draw your tubes matters
The tubes are not empty, and what is in one can change the numbers in the next. The sequence is the only thing that prevents it.
14 August 2026
Dengue and the platelet count: what the number does and does not tell you
Why one platelet count means less than three, why the warning signs are things you feel rather than things we measure, and when to stop reading and go to hospital.
8 July 2026
H, L and CRIT: how to read your own report
What the reference interval really claims, why one value outside it is not automatically a problem, and the one number you should compare it against.
Find us
Come in, or send us a message.
- Monday to Friday6.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
- Saturday6.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
- Sunday and Poya days7.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.