The Chief Medical Director,University College Hospital(UCH), Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo recently inspected the University College Hospital Zonal Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory.
The laboratory serves as a hub for diagnosis and drug sensitivity tests for tuberculosis in the South-West Zone of Nigeria.
He was received by the Head, Department of Medical Microbiology, Prof. Aderemi Oludiran Kehinde who led him on a guided tour of the laboratory.
While on the tour, Prof. Kehinde disclosed that the renovation and reequipping of the laboratory was fully funded by a research consortium, West African Network of Excellence for tuberculosis (WANETAM).
He expressed the belief that the renovation and equipping of the laboratory will ultimately help to attain the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) accreditation and certification.
In his response, Prof. Otegbayo lauded the long term partnership between the laboratory and its research partners, he said: “partnership is one of my policy thrust, it is important in making progress, we can not do it alone, we need collaborators and partners to help fund and drive research endeavours, this is commendable”, Otegbayo explained
