You and Your Health: Friday 12 May 2017

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Name of Programme: You and Your Health

Date: May 12, 2017
Time: Friday 11:30am, repeated Saturday 4:00PM
Theme or main focus if appropriate

Highlights of Issues discussed at the 3rd Annual Medical Laboratory Professional Week held on April 27, 2017

Names of guests/resource persons:
Dougbeh Chris Nyan, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer / Infectious Diseases Diagnostics
Shufflex Biomed, LLC United States of America

Interviews or recorded pieces-subject matter and/or content.

Dr. Dougbeh Nyan said almost every professional may be aware that the situation of medical laboratory diagnostics in Liberia and most of Africa is very challenging. He said the challenges exist not because laboratory personnel and technicians in Liberia do not have the interest in performing good diagnosis, but largely because of certain factors.