New Amsterdam hospital laboratory gets GNBS certification

Acting Executive Director at the GNBS Evadnie Ennis (right) presents a certification certificate to Jaiwattie Mangal, senior medical technologist at the New Amsterdam Hospital laboratory as hospital representatives and others look on

The New Amsterdam Hospital medical laboratory received certification from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) making it one of a small number of medical laboratories that have been thus certified.

At a simple ceremony to mark the occasion, the hospital noted that it had been trying to get certified over a number of years but always encountered a setback. CEO at the Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA) Dr Vishwa Mahadeo said it was not easy for the institution to meet the standard and as such he charged the laboratory