It is estimated that 60 to 70 percent of all decisions about a patient’s diagnosis, treatment, and hospital admission and discharge are influenced by laboratory test results.

We have a lengthy procedure and a well-grounded internal quality-controlled protocol to ensure that such case never arise. In that, we invite our customer to personally visit our laboratory and meet with the person in-charge who shall be please to reassure you of our security features.

To have a clear answer to this question, you will be required to call/ email or visit our nearest laboratory where the staff member shall be please to attend to this query of yours because it varies with the test or methodology prescribed by your doctor. However, you would be pleased to note that most of the tests are done locally within our laboratories and that rare medical tests are referred to our partner laboratories in France or South Africa.

We do provide “Home Bleeding” services to bed ridden or disabled patients who cannot attend the laboratory at a very low displacement fee.

Yes, indeed we have an appointed unit for customer care/ complain handling. Should you feel the need for any query, information or complain, please feel free to call us on 454 9999 (Central & Western regions), 413 5114 (Eastern regions), 283 5114 (Northern regions) or 631 7114 (Southern regions) or simple send us an email on info@biosantelab.com and we shall attend you immediately.

All our phlebotomist are trained professionals, appraised and certified by our Quality Assurance Manager as being competent for blood collection. They are equally trained under ISO 15189, Health & Safety and First Aid cares to offer excellent customer care and health care assistance at all point in time.

Our Medical laboratory technologists are all professionals having completed a minimum bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science from recognized universities both locally and abroad and among the batch toppers and having passed a competency examination, as part of International Organisation for Standardization’s (ISO 15189) requirements that qualifies them to work in all parts of the medical laboratory.

This question cannot be answered in brief. However, to summarize our point, our laboratory work system are regularized by the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life, our quality results and service is benchmarked by ISO 15189, our apparatus are tested and approved to European standards and are quality assessed by UK & South Africa and our staffs apart from being Biomedical science qualified and batch toppers are also competency assessed vis-à-vis ISO 15189.

Yes, we do have a secured database to store all our customer records for a minimum of 5 years. Any information beyond 5 years are achieved where same cannot be retrieved prior management approval for security reason. Also to be noted that we operate in a secured network where no third party can have access to our database. Thus our customers’ credentials are safeguarded.

We have our own transport network with several messenger/ drivers who are responsible for the transportation of specimen by Car or Motorcycle across the island at different interval throughout the day. To be noted that all our messenger/ drivers are trained vis-à-vis ISO and health & safety and well equipped to handle any case of hazard.

Results are interpreted to customer, but are eventually advised to see their doctors for treatment in each individual cases.

Confidentiality forms part of our quality policy and we are highly committed towards this ethic and work practice. To ensure that there is no leakage of information or customer details, our first measure of security is that we do not allow access to any unauthorized person in the laboratory technical departments. Secondly, all our personnel, including managers are required to sign and adhere to a confidentiality agreement between the company and the person, where any bridge in contract renders the person liable to legal action. Eventually, to reinforce the confidentiality level, at no point in time is medical result issued to third party prior written authorization by customer himself/ herself.

Yes. The proof of identity is mandatory for a customer to undertake medical test(s). This is very important to ensure our quality policy is respected and for customer security purpose. It is our company policy not to process any sample with proof of identity. For under 18, identity of their parents is required.

Yes. For result collection, customer is required to provide an original identity proof for confidentiality reason. No result shall be issued to customer without identity proof. In case of third party collecting result, written authorization of customer is required, whilst mentioning the identity of the third party who shall collect the result and the third party should present in person with an original identity proof.

Cash, Cheque, Debit & Credit card and Bank Transfers are all accepted. However, to be noted that in our collection point, only cash and cheque is accepted.

Part payment facilities is an added value to our customer service, and we do provide this service to all our customers, provided a minimum of 70% down payment is effected for us to be able to process the samples. The remaining payment may be made at the time result is collected. However, it is advised that customer take their receipt and present same upon clearing amount due.

No. We do not charge VAT on our prices as we form part of the economy’s essential services.

Yes. We work openly with all insurance companies in Mauritius and accept payment from them as well. However, It is your responsibility to verify out-of-network benefit coverage with your insurance carrier prior to testing. Insurance is billed at the full retail price as listed on the test & fee schedule. You are financially responsible for any charges not paid by your insurance company as Biosante does not dispute or appeal denied/unpaid claims.

Yes. Based on the requirement of different cruise agencies, we do have several medical packages customized for cruise candidates. Customers are required to call at our nearest laboratory to have more details about the procedure.

Yes, you can do a general health check-up as per available profiles without doctor’s prescription form. However, we always recommend patients to consult a doctor following their medicals for further advice and/ or treatment.

Previous copies of results may be issued to customer, provided request is made in advance formally through a letter or mail. However, it should be noted that for confidentiality reason, the person should present in person to collect same, and accompanied by a proof of identity.

Usually specimen collected are discarded the next day. However, for certain specialized test, which need to be sent abroad or exceptional cases where sample collection is difficult and specimen might be needed later, those specimens are preserved for few more days.

Yes, our laboratories are approved by the Ministry of Health & Quality of Life.

We are specialized in performing batch sample collection and bleeding and our working hours for batch medical screening is also flexible and adaptable to our client’s demand. For instance, for more than 15 years we have been doing batch medical screening for corporates’ staff members and clients, where we are experienced in collecting over 300 sample a day or much more. Usually, we do not charge for any additional fee for batch medicals; not even displacement fee (Though, condition is applied for a minimum batch size.