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Implementation of Good Laboratory Practices: A Joint Pakistan-U.S. Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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, published a Handbook on Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Pakistan.1 It serves as an informational guide for clinical laboratories with the aim of improving the health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment in Pakistan. The main goal of the 2019 workshop was to develop a plan for further implementation of the key concepts and practices outlined in the Handbook across the diverse landscape of Pakistani human and animal clinical labs.2 Specifically, this involved reviewing key areas for development and improvement in laboratories across Pakistan, identifying challenges to implementation, and analyzing practical steps that can be taken at the local, provincial, and national levels to overcome those challenges.
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• Animal health clinical laboratories have an additional goal beyond animal health: supporting economic health with the secondary goal of supporting human health. • A network of public and private sector laboratories across Pakistan is critical to increasing the effectiveness of labs and to decreasing disparities among them.
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In addition to the existing national laboratory policy and national laboratory biosafety and biosecurity policy, a National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines and an Antimicrobial Resistance policy were being developed at the time of the workshop. In the short term, they recommended local-level dissemination of the Handbook involving awareness campaigns, a proactive approach to communication with provincial governing bodies, and meetings with key stakeholders.
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• Network of related professional societies • Accreditation plan for all labs • Benchmark labs • Toolkits • Existing national quality program (e.g., the National External Quality Assurance Program Pakistan)
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PLANNING COMMITTEE: David Franz, independent consultant; Diane Griffin, Distinguished University Service Professor, W Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular, Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine; Ali Khan, co-chair, Dean, College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, ret.
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