Ahmedabad: The Pramukhswami Medical College at Karamsad in central Gujarat has received the accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Laboratories (NABL) for all its laboratories.

'This is an honour for the institution and a recognition of the high quality standards followed by it. We realise that it also places greater responsibility on our shoulders, to maintain these standards and to keep improving on them,' said Amrita Patel, chairman of Charutar Arogya Mandal, which manages the medical college at Karamsad in Anand district, 73 km from here.

Only the Vellore-based Christian Medical College has received the NABL accreditation though only for its bio-chemistry lab, while the Karamsad College has got the accreditation for all its labs - pathology, bio-chemistry and microbiology, said Patel, who is also chairperson of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). IANS