Regional Laboratories Capacity Building Directorate

Mission: To improve the quality of health care service by establishing quality laboratory system and building the capacity of national and regional clinical and public health reference laboratories

Vision: To be center of excellence in quality laboratory services in Africa

Objectives: 

• Increase and maintain quality assured laboratories,
• Enhance laboratory quality management system implementation, and
• Strengthening laboratory capacity for referral and backup testing services.

Major activities:

• Enroll laboratories for strengthening laboratory management towards accreditation (SLMTA),
• Enable laboratories to achieve ISO 15189/ 17025 accreditation,
• Capacity building for national external quality assurance programs,
• Strengthen regional external quality assurance programs,
• Evaluation/ Validation of Equipment and supplies,
• Implementation of Laboratory quality assurance,
• Laboratory infrastructure/ system development,
• Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity system,
• Strengthen national systems for referral specimen transportation and result delivery,
• Strengthen backup testing services,
• Capacitate clinical, public health and emergency diagnostic services, and
• Provide laboratory in-service training.

 Contact Address

Telephone: 01122758331