Confirm before release
Any critical or abnormal value is repeated on a second method before it ever reaches a report. Speed never overrides certainty.
The Lab
A lab founded by the people who read the results.
Hikma Lab was started by two pathologists who were tired of chasing samples across the Gulf and waiting days for a number a patient needed that afternoon.
Dr. Salma Al-Ansari and Dr. Kareem Fakhro spent years reading slides for hospitals that outsourced their labs abroad. Samples travelled for days, results came back without context, and no one could answer a clinician who called with a question. They opened Hikma in 2014 to keep the whole chain — draw, analysis, and interpretation — under one roof in Manama.
A decade on, the rule that opened the lab still runs it: every abnormal result gets a human set of eyes, every clinician call reaches a pathologist, and no report leaves the building until the number can be defended. The instruments got faster; the standard did not move.
The Lab
Hikma Lab
Hikma in numbers
1.2M
Tests run since 2014
480+
Assays on the menu
38
Scientists & technologists
11
Referring hospitals
How we run the bench
A number needs context
Reports carry reference ranges, prior results, and a pathologist note when the picture is not obvious. A value alone is only half an answer.
The clinician can always call
A referring doctor who phones reaches a pathologist, not a queue. Interpretation is part of the test, not an upsell.
Chain of custody, always
From the barcode at the bedside to the sealed cold chain, every sample is traceable end to end. No anonymous tubes.
Who signs your report
Dr. Salma Al-Ansari
Consultant Pathologist · Co-founder
Dr. Kareem Fakhro
Molecular Pathologist · Co-founder
Noor Habib
Chief Technologist
Yaqoob Al-Sayed
Quality & Accreditation
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