Government says it is committed to providing quality biomedical laboratory services in all health centers and hospitals in the country.
Minister of Health (MOH) Kapembwa Simbao said biomedical laboratories,at all levels of health care, play a vital role in the health care system, the world over.
Mr. Simbao said this in a speech read on his behalf by Ministry of Health Assistance Director, Administration and Logistics Faith Kangwa at the closing of the biomedical laboratory awareness week in Lusaka last evening.
He said it was for this reason that the government in 1997 developed a National Laboratory Policy whose purpose is to guide government and all stakeholders on the norms of biomedical practice.
Mr. Simbao implored the Biomedical Society of Zambia (BMSZ) to ensure that graduates from the University of Zambia (UNZA) and other training institutions abide by the code of training.
He said abiding by the code would enable them to practice in clinics and hospitals in the country.
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Don’t just talk about it. Just do it.
Human resource is available that is good, Lab equipment somewhat available, though others are ancient needing replacement. what ,however seem to be lacking is the constant supply of reagents in order to have efficient lab services…..
Awesome! Diagnoses will be quicker and patients will get the right treatment.
ladies and gentlemen,thats a song. dont read too much into it.
You are vindicated my brother/sister, the Govt intends to close one of the schools that trains the personnel to work in the lab. it is amazing
Even if, it is a known song , what should be the improved version of it…sir/madam and how should a chorus read..solutions
sounds good,will wait and see.hope when we get back home (those of us in diaspora) will find the coronary lab at least at uth so that we stop sending pipo to S/A for PCIs and coronary angiography,equipment fo dialysis at provincial centres, and lastly but not the least lab eqip. at district hospitals fo lipid profiles. pronouncements are made,we are yet to see results.
Good start