What is it about?
This write-up explains simple precautionary steps that can be used by medical laboratory scientists (Biomedical Scientist) especially in resource compromised economies and low income countries where sophisticated safety equipment are absent for carrying out laboratory diagnosis. It cuts across the different sub-specialties of pathological sciences.
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Why is it important?
Owing to the declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic by WHO and the non-exemption of low income and resource compromised countries from this infection, there is need therefore to find ways of saving lives and ensuring safety standards for laboratorians in these countries which make up a larger number of the world. This write-up addresses this challenge.
Perspectives
Human Samples will definitely come for Biomedical examination from patients that might have been infected by Covid-19 for routine laboratory investigation. Aside treating all samples with outmost safe handling and enshrining good laboratory practises, there is need to highlight and re-emphasize safe laboratory practises for resource compromised countries where medical laboratory practise is faced with lots of challenges.
kevin Odega
University Of Benin Teaching Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Safe Laboratory Practices in the Light of Covid-19 Pandemic: Way Forward in a Resource Limited Setting, April 2020, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202004.0103.v1.
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