From left: Dennis Morgan, chief executive officer, St Ann's Bay Hospital; Captain Douan Kirivong, acting country director,CDC Caribbean Regional Office; Dr Tanya Hamilton Johnson, senior medical officer, St Ann's Bay Hospital; Dorrett Martin,regional medical technologist, Northeast Regional Health Authority; and Craig Ricketts, chief medical technologist, StAnn's Bay Hospital pause for a photo op following the donation of two biosafety cabinets by the CDC's regional partnerGlobal Laboratory Epidemiology Systems Strengthening Network.
February 11, 2022
CDC donates medical equipment to St Ann’s Bay Hospital medical lab
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Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) Caribbean Regional Office’s regional partner, Global Laboratory Epidemiology Systems Strengthening Network (GLESSN), procured two biosafety cabinets valued at US$30,095 through US President’s Energy Plan for AIDS relief (PEPFAR) funding, which was donated to the St Ann’s Bay laboratory. The cabinets are critical to the functioning of the laboratory as they will be instrumental in the safe processing of clinical samples and enhance the occupational health and safety measures of the lab staff who handle them. This will further strengthen the functioning of the diagnostic referral network for HIV and other diseases nationally.
