Clinical lab technicians enlightened on international standards |08 May 2015

Thirteen technical staff from the clinical laboratory of the Seychelles Hospital have just followed training on international standards for medical laboratories (ISO 15189) conducted by two biochemists from the Medical College & Research Institute of the Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India.
 
Organised by the Ministry of Health, the training – the first of its kind held last week at the Seychelles Hospital – aims to create awareness of the essential requirements of international standards for medical laboratories around the world.

The training forms part of the Health Care Agency’s effort to strengthen its human resource capacity to adopt international standards as it prepares the lab to eventually reach accreditation.

At the end of the training, the technicians were awarded certificates which were presented by the deputy chief executive of the Health Care Agency, Dr Danny Louange.

 Dr Louange strongly stressed on the importance of bringing quality and standards to everyday practices in the laboratory for the benefit of patients and the advancement of services in general.

 The process of accreditation of the clinical laboratory was expressed by President James Michel himself in the State-of-the-Nation address and is being strongly supported by the Health Care Agency of the Ministry of Health.