DAVAO CITY, Oct. 3 (PIA) The government moved in to
strengthen more its delivery of health services as the Department of Health
through the Health Facility Development Bureau conducted a consultation on the
Administrative Order No.2014 or the Guidelines on the Establishment of Regional
Laboratory Network.
Dr. Tomas Maramba, chair of the technical working group on
the strategic plan for the National Health Laboratory Network said the
establishment of a regional laboratory network is important since laboratory
services are critical to health services.
He stressed that laboratory services are also significant in
making good policies and health management by the doctors and managers of
public health programs.
“We intend to tap first the secondary and tertiary hospitals
before we cascade down to the small hospitals,” Maramba said.
He also cited the importance of training the pathologists
and medical technologists prior to the establishment of a regional laboratory
network.
Maramba said the program entails hard work for both the
government and the health workers.
He expressed hope that a strategic plan established by the
National Health Laboratory Network will improve the laboratory services in the
regional level.
“In this manner we can persuade government, management,
business, national and international donors to invest on laboratory services,”
Maramba pointed out.
The consultation was participated in by pathologists and
medical technologists from various government and private hospitals in Davao
Region. (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)
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