National Sensitization Workshop on specimen Referral Linkage

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) National Laboratory Capacity Building Directorate organized a national sensitization workshop on integrated specimen referral network for Ethiopia, Challenge TB, ICAP and CHAL in collaboration with the USAID funded challenge TB project on March 8-9,2018 in Adama.
The objective of the workshop is to sensitize all stakeholders on the implementation of integrated specimen referral linkage and to discuss the challenge and the way forward related with referral system.
On the workshop the over view of referral linkage, over view of referral linkage integrated specimen transportation network for Ethiopian HFS and its costing
EPSE best practices and challenges on specimen transportation system, van specimen transportation system challenges and best practices Regional laboratories specimen transportation and referral linkage practice and Integrated specimen transportation and referral linkage assessment finding were presented and discussed on.