TB Infection Control

In the majority of tb burden countries, English at best will be a second language and these laboratories would have great difficulties without some form of mentoring support. What are the proposed plans to achieve this support?

Quality Management Systems to Strengthen TB Laboratory Capacity in the
TB Infection Control. There is a serious need to come-up with good
quality management of TB laboratories in order to produce good quality
results. David Coleman said we need to learn english yes and I add
understand its meaning and then when you have understood you can now
interpret to any language in order to produce best results. We are
saying we need a mentor, what is a mentor? It is an experienced person
and skilled who wil act as an advisor similar to a consultant, meaning
these people will give best professional advise/recommandations of
action. If we are to improve on laboratory quality management we need
those who have the skill and the expectise of the TB laboratory work.
I agree that the TB laboratory has been neglect even though they maybe
efforts done to improve, but those efforts are not applied full. We
also need to follow guidelines that have been laid down because where
there have been applied they have proved to be successful and produce
best results.
I have worked in a National TB Reference Laboratory in a low-income
country for 11 years and this ...

Quality Management Systems to Strengthen TB Laboratory Capacity in the
TB Infection Control. There is a serious need to come-up with good
quality management of TB laboratories in order to produce good quality
results. David Coleman said we need to learn english yes and I add
understand its meaning and then when you have understood you can now
interpret to any language in order to produce best results. We are
saying we need a mentor, what is a mentor? It is an experienced person
and skilled who wil act as an advisor similar to a consultant, meaning
these people will give best professional advise/recommandations of
action. If we are to improve on laboratory quality management we need
those who have the skill and the expectise of the TB laboratory work.
I agree that the TB laboratory has been neglect even though they maybe
efforts done to improve, but those efforts are not applied full. We
also need to follow guidelines that have been laid down because where
there have been applied they have proved to be successful and produce
best results.
I have worked in a National TB Reference Laboratory in a low-income
country for 11 years and this is my 12th year. I have had an
experience of working with TB consultants for three full years during
these years they shaped our National TB Program Sputum Smaer
laboratory network including producing standard operating procedures,
training curiculum for training microscopist for the TB Sputum Smear
laboratory human resource strengthening including good quality
assurance program. The unfortunate part is that as they left we failed
to maintain the standard as we brought in those who did not have the
expertise and the skill and partly in the process we destroyed what we
had acquired.
I wish to propose that as we chose mentors as you want to call them
please chose those who have the exceptise and the skill of working in
a TB laboratory/TB program for the seek of continuity. Laboratories
are forgotten departments within the Minstry of Health in that there
is little progress being done to acquired best results. Sometimes the
discouragement is from how strenthening of the laboratories is done
chosing other health workers with a different discipline to mentor
this demotivates and it creates a mind of no confidence in the work
that you are doing.

Regina Bhebhe (PMLSc)
National TB Reference Laboratory
Bulawayo
Zimbabwe

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