The Department of Haematology functions both as a major clinical and as a laboratory medicine department. It plays a pivotal role in the teaching of haematology to undergraduate medical students (MD), postgraduate students of medicine who have opted to specialize in haematology (OMSB), as well as biomedical scientist(BMS) in the BSc (MLS) course. The laboratory provides quality haematology testing for the university hospital including complete haemostatic and haemoglobinopathy workup as well as highly specialized flowcytometric analysis for haematological malignancy and molecular diagnostic facilities for inherited and malignant disorders for the entire Sultanate.