The Registrar of the West African Postgraduate College of Medical Laboratory Science, Dr Godswill Okara, has said the greatest challenge facing medical laboratories in the country is lack of modern equipment.
Okara, who said this at a press briefing in Abuja, explained that despite the knowledge and skill possessed by Nigerian scientists, lack of modern equipment and gadgets to produce results remained a setback. He said, “We have colleagues who have the knowledge and skill but that is not just enough. If you go to the laboratory and the modern equipment and gadgets you need to produce results are not there, there’s nothing you can do, so that is exactly what we are talking about. As we speak, in Nigeria there is no place where we have a level 4 biosafety laboratory despite our financial capacity.
“While vaccines had shown to be the most cost-effective way of controlling epidemic-prone diseases like cholera and meningitis, Nigeria had before now produced a number of human vaccines. However, instead of upgrading the lab facilities, it has been left to go into dilapidation.”
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