Government says the implementation of the Quality Management Systems in all public health laboratories across the country is progressing well.
Deputy Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya said this will help all public laboratories in the country to conform to the clinical laboratories standard of ISO 15189 and achieve accreditation.
Dr. Chilufya said this will also make clinical laboratories in Zambia to be internationally recognized and also provide confidence in laboratory services for better patient management.
The deputy minister said this in Lusaka today in a speech read on his behalf by Acting Director of Clinical Care and Diagnostics Services Davy Nsama at the official opening of the five days Training Workshop on Minimum Standards for National Reference Laboratories in the Southern African Development Community (SADCC).
The training workshop has attracted laboratory specialists from all central and general Hospitals across the country.
And Dr. Chilufya expressed hope that the training workshop will help in accelerating the implementation of the quality management systems at all levels of laboratory services countrywide.
Zambia has subscribed to the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) 2020 vision target of enrolling 2,500 laboratories across Africa of which 250 must achieve accreditation.
