Top Laboratory, Performing Thyroid Function Tests in India, 2022
With increasing awareness and the advent of advanced technologies to improve the detection, patient care, and thyroid diseases, it becomes important to understand which laboratory companies are offering the best thyroid function tests in India.
1. Thyrocare
Thyrocare is an Indian multinational chain of diagnostic and preventive care labs. It is a public listed company. Its headquarter is in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company has more than 1122 outlets and collection centers in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and the middle east. Its main central Processing laboratory is situated in Navi Mumbai and Regional Processing Laboratory in major metro cities of India.
A Velumuni, ex-scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, Maharashtra had laid the foundation of Thyrocare. It was acquired by an Indian E-pharmacy company, Pharmeasyin the year 2021. It is a public listed company.
Initially, Thyrocare started with the motive of thyroid testing but now they have more than 350+ tests and packages and 83 profile packages comprising different types of tests for preventive care and wellness under its brand Aarogyam. Thyrocare played a very significant role in India during COVID -19 pandemic, and it has carried out more than 8 lacs tests in a month.
2. Pathkind Labs
Pathkind diagnostic Labs headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana has started to provide the best quality of diagnostic services in India to provide an accurate test results. Pathkind Diagnostics is the new venture of Mankind Pharma and has started its operation in 2017.
Pathkind tries to give the report at the least possible time at an affordable price.
According to their website, they have 75 + labs and 2000 collection centers.
Pathkind does not provide a separate test for thyroid function test but includes it in almost every test package.
3. Healthians
Healthians company was started in 2013 and its headquarter is in Gurugram, Haryana. This company was started by Mr. Deepak Sahni as a subsidiary of Expedient Healthcare. Currently, it is operating in more than 150 cities and has a good network of 10 different labs across India.
Healhian provides a whole range of tests from Pregnancy checkups to stool tests. Thyroid function tests are also included in the test list. They provide home collection.
Healthians is also providing different types of scans like PET scans, MRI scans, X-ray scans, etc.
Healhian has raised multiple funding in multiple rounds. Cricketer Yuvraj Singh has also invested in this company through its venture capital, YuWeCan.
4. Apollo Diagnostics
Apollo Diagnostics is a subsidiary of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited. Apollo had started its operation in 2015 and this company is the one-stop solution for all diagnostic and pathology tests. It has more than 250 + collection centers and 70 plus labs across India. Apollo diagnostic offers services in the areas of clinical pathology, biochemistry, cytopathology, hematology, histopathology immunology, microbiology, molecular genetics, molecular diagnostics, and serology.
Its clinical laboratory test includes blood testing, body fluid tests, tissue pathology and cytology, General Health Screening & Monitoring, Drug Screening & Testing as well as gene-based testing.
Apollo diagnostic center also offers routing health checkups which include Thyroid Function tests.
5. Dr. Lal Path Labs
Dr. Lal Pathlab Limited provides services in diagnostic and related healthcare tests. Dr. Lal Path Lab has its headquarter in New Delhi and was started by Late Dr. S.K Lal in the year, 1949.
The main operation of Dr. Lal Path labs is diagnosis and testing, including routine testing ( which include blood tests, Thyroid Function Test), specialized test, and routine screening.
6. SRL Diagnostics
SRL Diagnostics is based in Gurugram, Haryana, and provides diagnostic services in pathology and radiology. This was started in the year 1995. SRL has two global reference laboratories one in Goregaon and the other in Gurugram two regional reference laboratories in Kolkata and Banglore.
SRL diagnostics has a presence in 34 states and provides a range of diagnostics tests, health packages including the Thyroid Function Test.
7. Metropolis Lab
Metropolis Lab is founded in 1980, by Dr. Sushil Kanubhai Shah. It is a multinational chain of diagnostic labs. Its central processing lab is situated in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and has 150 clinical laboratories, 2400 collection centers across 7 countries.
Metropolis offers a broad range of about 3487 clinical laboratory tests and 530 profiles.
(Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is purely for educational purposes only. The order of companies is not deliberate. The order of the companies are only for reader reference and due respect must be taken care of before making any judgment about status of the company)