THE Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) joins with the rest of Guyana and the world to celebrate Medical Laboratory Professionals Week during the period April 22 to 26, 2013. Activities have been undertaken under the theme: Laboratory Professionals – Get results’.

More specifically, the GNBS takes this opportunity to recognise the contributions of Laboratory Professionals who have developed, implemented, and maintained laboratory management systems within their laboratories to ‘Get accurate and reliable results’.
Laboratory results are very critical for decision making, and the processes used to achieve those results must be controlled. The implementation of a laboratory management system meeting the requirements of the GYS 170 Standard, General requirements for the operation of a laboratory, provides a framework for a laboratory to ensure that it “gets results” which are accurate, reliable and useful to diagnose medical complications and prescribe the right medicines.
Without a laboratory management system, a laboratory has no recognised way of assuring its customers — who include doctors, patients, insurance companies, embassies, regulatory authorities and other interested parties — that the results provided after conducting the required tests on a sample are reliable.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards congratulates the Laboratory Professionals of all the certified laboratories, including the Dr. Balwant Singh Hospital Laboratory, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation Medical Laboratory, the New Amsterdam Hospital Laboratory, Eureka Medical Laboratory, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Laboratory, Georgetown Medical Centre Laboratory, National Public Health Reference Laboratory, the Woodlands Hospital Laboratory, and the GRDB Central Laboratory, for their dedication and commitment towards implementing laboratory management systems in Guyana, and playing a leading role in “getting results”.
The GNBS encourages medical professionals and persons requiring medical tests to fully utilise the services offered by these certified medical laboratories.
The GNBS also would like to encourage other medical and testing laboratories that have not yet decided on implementing the laboratory management system to come on board the GNBS Laboratory Programme.
For further information, please contact the GNBS on telephone numbers: 219-0065 or 219-0066, or visit the GNBS website at: www. gnbsgy.org