Georgetown : Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and his wife Yvonne Hinds last evening officially launched QualiTEST Brand Laboratory in Alberttown, Georgetown, which is aimed at providing quality medicine, diagnosis and patient management.
The lab is designed to fulfilled and maintain compliance with the local standards, ethics, laws and regulation. It promises that the testing process will be correctly preformed by competent personnel using validated equipment and methods that assure valuable and safe medical decision making which is effective for patient care. The technical staff at the lab comprises five females.
Prime Minister Hinds said health is the most important asset and that as persons grow more prosperous in society more is spent in the health area, and there is also a need for more of those services.
“I’ll take this opportunity to point out in society that each of us have something to do with the service or the exchange with each other and the quality of life that we enjoy that in society … we have to get better as a nation of people in doing whatever we do and providing that and sharing that to other members in our society with having a long career in the area of medical laboratory sciences.”
The Prime Minister added that persons have been able to obtain various certifications in this particular area, noting that the improved medical services in the country, reflects the growth and development that it has been experiencing.
Chief Executive Officer of QualiTEST Brand Ms. Yvette Irving pointed out that research has shown that 80% of diagnosis is made based on testing laboratory data while 20% is for medical decisions, which is due to emergency or absence of laboratory facilities.
“The path of our work flow begins outside the laboratory’s boundaries with the provided request for laboratory examination. This ends outside the laboratory’s boundaries as well when the laboratory results support a provider’s decision making,” she said.
She added that as the lab moves to fulfill an international standard, quality care will be the priority, and they are going to be seeking ways to improve their experience through feedback.
Dr. David Seccombe, Managing Director at Canadian External Quality Assessment Laboratory highlighted that he has been working with several labs in the Caribbean, and is now collaborating with the Ministry of Heath to improve health care facilities in Guyana and the QualiTEST Brand Laboratory.
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