Referral labs
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 18 2012: Prof S Sekharjit, Director of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal has underlined the imperative need of the participation of doctors and technicians in the national referral laboratories for ensuring zero errors while handling suspected cases of HIV patients because there is a big difference in the first hand and second hand reports.

He was speaking at the brief inaugural function of the one day workshop cum training of the representatives of the national and state referral laboratories in the Jubilee hall today.

He said that the state referral laboratories would improve their position, conveyed a press release issued by the RIMS media advisor.

He announced that RIMS is always ready to extend financial and other assistance to various workshops for the advancement of the knowledge in medical science.

Representatives from Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland are participating in the workshop cum training programme.

It was organised by the Microbiology department of RIMS in collaboration with MACS.

Prof Ng.

Brajachand, HOD, Microbiology department, said that the objective of the workshop is to improve the quality of the HIV testing in RIMS which is one of the 12 national referral laboratories.

There should be no mistake in the testing since it involves human and financial factors.

He also said that the quality of the testing kits should be maintained.

Global efforts are on for standardization of laboratories, and competence of the technicians is a must.

L.R.Kom, the Deputy Director of MACS underlined the importance of laboratory results since doctors depend on these while treating the patients.

.EDebendra Meitei, the Deputy Director of RIMS said that the dynamic Microbiology department has been organising many workshops.

All future proposals for such workshops which are meant for the benefit of the participants would be cleared, he assured.

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