pune none of the 450 registered pathology labs in the city has submitted to the municipal corporation any information on the educational qualifications and registrations of their technicians despite a civic body directive last month pune municipal corporation pmc will now seek further guidance from the state government as the january 27 directive was based on its order to clamp down on illegal labscivic officials said it was often found that labs were run by underqualified technicians who just get the required signature from an md pathologist on the reportdr manisha naik assistant health officer at pmc said we had sent out a letter to all labs in the city that are registered for biomedical waste management to give us detailed information on who owns the lab and also what are their qualifications and whether the staff including technicians are registered with the maharashtra paramedical council we had stated that if any lab is found to be running by a person without the required educational qualifications then it would face actionthe labs were directed to provide this information within eight daysdr ashish bharti chief of the pmcs public health department said it is important labs are run by qualified people because they are the first step in diagnosis and followup treatment any error in the diagnosis report could lead to catastrophic resultsdr prasad kulkarni executive council member of the maharashtra association of practising pathologists and microbiologists said our members said they are yet to receive any such letter