A robot is now speeding up bloodtest process at the Chulalongkorn Hospital.
Speaking at a press conference, the hospital's director Dr Adisorn Patradul said the robot had allowed patients to undergo blood puncture and get bloodtest results in 20 minutes.
Before the robot was put into use, the patients had to wait for about an hour before they could get the results.
Dubbed as Rabelon 1, this robot is responsible for preparing tubes for the patients, by sealing label specifying the information of each patient and the type of blood test he or she needed.
"It can prepare 1,440 tubes in an hour," Adisorn said.
The tubes prepared by Rabelon 1 are sent to eight lanes for blood punctures, where medical workers are on hands to check the patients' information before drawing blood sample.
"Since Rabelon 1 came to work last month, it has never made a mistake," Adisorn said.
Under the support of the National Innovation Agency, the hospital has joined hands with Zenimed Co Ltd in creating Rabelon 1 under Bt4million budget.
A similar robot imported from Japan costs as much as Bt15million.