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In Brazil, the public health sector is managed by the Unified Health System (SUS), created in 1988 and responsible for the public health structure – hospitals, clinics, research centers and patient service centers.
To fulfill the attendance in the sector, private suppliers can integrate SUS net through contracts established by public bids. In this ambit, the payment is determined by the type of service rendered: Clinical analysis, surgeries or treatments.
With the acquisition of CientificaLab in July 2007, DASA initiated its services of clinical analysis for the public health sector, a new market for the company which represented a new stage of growth in the strategic plan of the company. The expansion of CientificaLab services, currently in São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, foresees an increase in test volume of the current contracts and the execution of new contracts in other states and cities.
CientificaLab, a leading private provider in the market of public sector attendance, served 36 clients at the moment of acquisition and, currently accounts for 40 clients ranged between medium size (up to 150 thousand tests processed by month) and large size (more than 150 thousand tests processed by month).
The way and extension of the service provision vary based on the interest and need of the public entity demanding the service, comprising three distinct models:
 Lab-to-lab : Includes the transportation and central processing of samples. In this case, Científica supplies the collection material, training of public employee and, in some cases, the remodeling of units to ensure the quality of attendance;
Outpatient Besides the lab-to-lab service, it integrates the attendance to patient and collection of samples;
Inpatient: It refers to the attendance to patients, collection of tests, local processing for urgent tests, transportation and central processing for the other tests.
Growth strategy for CientificaLab is based on the execution of contracts with new clients and on the increase in provision of services for the existing clients, by offering a larger number of tests.
There are more than 55,000 public hospitals with significant opportunities for the expansion of DASA services for the Brazilian public health service.
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