Speaking at a workshop organized by the NIgeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), a senior lecturer with the Department of Medical Laboratory, University of Lagos College of Medicine (ULCM) Dr. Francisca Nwa Okorie disclosed that only two out of 6,000 registered laboratories in the country meet international accreditation.
According to her, these two laboratories are the Tuberculosis (TB) and the Human Virology laboratories in NIMR which has gone through the WHO Afro process for 18 months for International Standard Organization accreditation (ISO) to get the Medical Laboratory ISO 15189.
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