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Health News for Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Source: 3 News
2020-11-25
About 600 medical laboratory professionals are expected to participate in 6 virtual meetings
As part of efforts to find a cure for the coronavirus, which devastated the world, CelebrateLAB has collaborated with West African scientists to provide much-needed knowledge for medical laboratory professionals.
The virtual training series was conducted in partnership with the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) and the Ghana Health Service and in collaboration with other laboratory professionals in West Africa.
An average of around 600 medical laboratory professionals from across Africa and outside the continent participated in each of the six virtual series.
The virtual series of more than six months made it possible for Medical Laboratory professionals to benefit from the valuable regional resources of experienced scientists who work on the continent and have first-hand knowledge of the problems that affect health systems in the region.
Sessions covered areas such as handling samples from COVID-19 patients: diagnostic tests and routine care; Diagnostic challenges in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in West Africa; Biosecurity in the era of COVID-19; Serological diagnosis of COVID-19; COVID-19 molecular diagnosis; and Creation and maintenance of the value chain in the health laboratory industry.
Speaking in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Tuesday, November 24, a medical laboratory consulting scientist and researcher at the Kintampo Health Research Center, Dr. Dennis Adu-Gyasi, who led some of the sessions, explained that “With the Covid -19 outbreak and restrictions introduced globally, thereafter, we were not sure how Medical Laboratory Professionals were going to acquire Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training to renew their practice license, as traditionally, credits were only granted for face-to-face training ”.
“Through collaboration, we were able to impact the knowledge of professionals in the comfort of their work environment, while obtaining the necessary credits to renew their professional licenses,” he explained.
He added that “the various scientific experts from the region who facilitated the sessions have set the tone for us to work together to make the continent self-sufficient in all aspects of medical laboratory practice.”
Dr. Dennis Adu-Gyasi further said: “We cannot compare our laboratories with those in the US, Europe and other parts of the world, but we have qualified laboratory scientists in Africa.”
He advised Ghanaians to obey security protocols because the disease still persists.
“Wearing a mask is difficult … because of the sun; You are tempted to remove the mask, but the disease still persists, so we must use it. “
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