Facilities:

1.At present, the main units in the Department of Pathology are Morbid Anatomy, Histopathology, Cytology and Immunocytochemistry,Frozen Section, Hematology, Lymphoma- leukemia registry, Hepatology, Submicroscopic Pathology, Chemical Pathology and Clinical Pathology, Neuropathology, Immunopathology, molecular genetics and Cytogenetics.
2. Automation in Chemical Pathology took place with the installation of autoanalyser.
3. 24 hour emergency pathology services are provided at Emergency Pathology Lab and Trauma Centre lab.
4. The State Blood Bank has been upgraded as a modern blood bank with facilities for provision of blood and various components. This is situated in an independent fully air conditioned adjacent building and provides round the clock services on totally voluntary blood donations.
5. A Coagulation Laboratory has been set up with facilities for factor assays.
6. Hormonal and serum tumor markers are available on cost to cost payment basis.
7. The department is providing training to State Pathologists of Regional Diagnostic Centres of the state.
8. The department has enrolled candidates for PhD course run by the university.
9. Medico Voluntary Blood Donation Socoety (Red Ribbon Club) constituted with about 600 voluntary registrations.

Activities:

1. Apart from teaching and research , the department also provides clinical pathology services.
2. The department has hosted the Annual Conference of the Association of Pathologists & Microbiologists of India twice - in 1957 and 1994. In the Centenary year 2005, a State level CME, Dinker Memorial Oration and All India Seminar on Hemophilia were organised.

Previous Heads:

Lt. Col. HJ Walton (1913 - 14), Lt. Col. JWD Megaw (1914 - 20), Capt JG Mukherjee (1920 - 22), Lt. Col. H Stott (1922 - 37), Prof M Abdul Hameed (1937 - 48), Prof VS Manglik (1948 - 60), Prof SP Gupta (1960 - 65), Prof RML Mehrotra (1965 - 83), Prof Dinker Chandra (1983 - 87) and Prof P Nath (1987-97)