Medical lab technology is an applied health profession which is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease trough the use of clinical laboratory test. These test help doctors to detect, diagnose and treat diseases.a medical laboratory technologist do these est by analisining the body fluids, tissues , blood typing, micro organism screening , chemical analyses, cell count of human body etc. they play an important role in collecting the informations needed, sampling, testing, reporting and documentation of these investigations. They determine the presence, extent or absence of disease and provide data needed to evaluvate the effectiveness of treatment.

There are two level of medical laboratory workers –techicians and technologists

Medical technologist work in five major areas of the laboratory ie in blood banking, clinical chemistry ( chemical analisis of body fluid) Hematology, Immunology, and micro biology. They also work in the area of cytotechnologist, phlebotomists , urine analysis , coagulation, parasitology and serology. Phelabotomist draw and test blood where as blood bank technologist determine correct type of blood for transfusion . histology technicians cut and stain tissue samples.