The FCT Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has pledged to introduce quality management systems in laboratories to improve services and fight the delays experienced by patients during lab tests.

 

The newly elected president of the AMLSN in Abuja, Ndubuisi Ebitea, stated this yesterday shortly after his inauguration saying that "the one thing that the association is promoting, though it is the MLSCN that is driving it is introduction of quality management systems into our laboratories. We call it turn-around time; it is one of the key items in quality management system.

 

"We are going to embark on projects and programmes to build the capacity of our members. We are going to work at introducing quality management systems both in public and private laboratories," he assured.

 

 

He noted that if members and the laboratories begin to imbibe the culture of quality management systems, the issue of delay in results will be a thing of the past.

 

The Abuja AMLSN new president also said that the branch will take the fight against unregistered laboratory outfits seriously because the MLSCN which regulates the practice frowns at quackery, adding that medical lab scientists do not practice quackery but those who are not trained medical lab scientists.

 

By Victoria Onehi

AllAfrica