{"id":1422,"date":"2023-04-21T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T10:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.mlscn.gov.ng\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T10:09:57","slug":"caritas-foundation-to-partner-mlscn-on-medical-laboratory-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/caritas-foundation-to-partner-mlscn-on-medical-laboratory-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"CARITAS FOUNDATION TO PARTNER MLSCN ON MEDICAL LABORATORY ACCREDITATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/web.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/43957d8c-6acf-446c-953e-8da416c3653f-300x183.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/43957d8c-6acf-446c-953e-8da416c3653f-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/43957d8c-6acf-446c-953e-8da416c3653f-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/43957d8c-6acf-446c-953e-8da416c3653f.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Caritas Foundation Nigeria has expressed the desire to work with the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) to scale up the quality of services rendered by the various medical laboratories under the Foundation. This was conveyed by a team of Medical Laboratory Scientists&nbsp;from&nbsp;the Foundation&nbsp;who paid a courtesy visit&nbsp;to&nbsp;the Registrar\/CEO,&nbsp;Dr&nbsp;Tosan&nbsp;Erhabor&nbsp;to congratulate him on his re-appointment&nbsp;recently<a><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geoffrey&nbsp;Onyenike, the team lead,&nbsp;who represented the Executive Secretary\/CEO of the Foundation, Rev. Fr. Dr&nbsp;Uchechukwu&nbsp;Obodoechina,&nbsp;while&nbsp;noting&nbsp;the Council\u2019s&nbsp;transformation&nbsp;under&nbsp;the current administration, added&nbsp;that&nbsp;CCFN-managed&nbsp;laboratorieswere&nbsp;involved in&nbsp;MLSCN\u2019s&nbsp;External&nbsp;Quality&nbsp;Assurance&nbsp;(EQA)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Quality&nbsp;Management&nbsp;System(QMS) programs&nbsp;and ready to key into&nbsp;its accreditation process.&nbsp;\u201cWe see the great achievements under you, especially with respect to the External Quality Assurance program, In-Vitro Diagnostic Laboratory, and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Quality&nbsp;Management System,&nbsp;which gives us&nbsp;confidence in our practice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, the Caritas Foundation currently manages&nbsp;four&nbsp;medical laboratories in Imo,&nbsp;Abia, Enugu etc. with funding from the US-CDC,&nbsp;which&nbsp;are&nbsp;already working towards accreditation.&nbsp;\u201cBut the issue of sustainability,\u201d&nbsp;he further noted,&nbsp;\u201cis always at the front burner given that funding could sometimes dry up.&nbsp;So, we have to always keep sustainability in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding, the&nbsp;Registrar assured the&nbsp;team&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Council\u2019s support&nbsp;to enable laboratories under the Caritas Foundation&nbsp;to&nbsp;leverage the MLSCN&nbsp;QualityTripod, including NEQAL,&nbsp;NaLECC, and the IVD Laboratory&nbsp;all of which are accredited to international standards.&nbsp;He urged&nbsp;the&nbsp;Foundation to work closely with&nbsp;MLSCN-National Laboratory Equipment Calibration Centre to optimize the performance of their equipment,&nbsp;assuring&nbsp;them&nbsp;that&nbsp;laboratories&nbsp;supported by CDC, including those under Caritas would go through the&nbsp;MLSCN&nbsp;accreditation process at&nbsp;a rebate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SIGNED: MLSCN MANAGEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caritas Foundation Nigeria has expressed the desire to work with the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}