Prior to COVID, we had just one referral laboratory regarding viral infections are worried. We had Uganda Infection Study Institute. Yet when COVID came, we collaborated with CDC. CDC has actually been really on the center
of reinforcing the solutions as much as viral as well as any kind of epidemic episode surveillance in the nation. CDC built capability and we’ve been able currently to broaden our capability from one viral lab in UVRI. Today, as I speak,
we have much more laboratories in the nation that are able
to detect COVID. So, it has actually been a game changer in fact. I think, diagnostic plays
a big function in top quality of treatment– timeliness, the credibility,
as well as the top quality of the outcomes make a great deal of difference,
also we as the clinicians. So we thank CDC for that. By the time COVID came in
we took a choice as ministry to accredit more labs.Because we currently
had actually welcomed SLMTA,( Enhancing Lab Monitoring Towards Accreditation) we already had SLMTA auditors, who assisted us in analyzing all these laboratories. I’ll inform you what. When the analysis was done, as a result of the SLMTA that they had undergone, they satisfied the demands for accreditation. They had systems in
area, quality systems, biosafety was in place, Human resources existed, logistics monitoring and also this is due to the fact that these laboratories had actually currently been signed up on SLMTA. And as we talk currently, we have actually. actually decentralized our COVID testing to even to the reduced health and wellness facilities,. to the regional referral hospitals
, and this implies, we have raised access,. we have actually successfully managed the COVID. However this is due to the fact that we have actually built a system. with the SLMTA program.
And also I think had it. not been that, we would have shed count on our outcomes. by our stakeholders.We would not
have taken care of to test.
or enhance access.
So, we actually value that. Uganda occupied this and it discovered us. prepared to be able to deal with COVID. So we'' ve effectively handled COVID.
due to the fact that we had a good laboratory system, that was reinforced.
by the SLMTA program. Yes.
