Council urges stakeholder’s compliance to laboratory re-assessment
Agency Report
Prof. Tosan Erhabor, Registrar, Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN), has urged medical laboratory practitioners and proprietors to key into the ministerial directive on re-registering and upgrading their facilities.
Erhabor made the call while addressing newsmen on the recent inauguration of a team to address quackery in the laboratory in Abuja on Tuesday.
The president said that the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa inaugurated the Technical Team on Medical Laboratory Regulation and Inspection against Quackery.
He described the ministerial intervention as a turning point in the efforts of MLSCN to bequeath a culture of accurate and reliable medical laboratory diagnosis on the citizenry.
Erhabor urged well-meaning medical laboratory practitioners and proprietors to be more patriotic and support MLSCN’s efforts.
He said the country can no longer watch while its meager foreign exchange earnings go to other countries for medical tourism.
“Time has come for stakeholders to work together to transform the health laboratory system for the good of all citizens.
“This is a noble and patriotic endeavor devoid of all partisan consideration.
“If medical laboratory practitioners and proprietors join hands with MLSCN on this project, we are already halfway to success, poor laboratory diagnosis would be a thing of the past,” he said.
The Registrar, however, warned that facilities that refused to comply by completing the online form as required would be regarded as non-existent or illegitimate.
He said the re-assessment programme was not intended to witch-hunt any facility or stakeholder but to improve the quality of medical laboratory test results from the facilities.(https://newsatlarge.ng)