A Multi-purpose Building (Central Warehouse, PT Panel Production, Bio-bank and Equipment Maintance Centers) Consulting Firm: Basal Consulting

Abstract

In the last decade, Ethiopia has achieved numerous public health successes to improve health care system for the provision of quality services; there are several gaps and challenges which are not addressed as well. Most of the laboratories in the health care system including the National Reference Laboratories function in facilities with sub-optimum infrastructures, poor safety working environment, shortage of equipment and equipment maintenance centers, sustainable supplies and storage interruption, bio-bank centers to stores leftover specimens and huge gaps in the implementation of Laboratory Quality Management System. The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) is one such institution, and a close look at its practices can help other central institutions promote public health through integration with national laboratory systems. One part of EPHI’s mission is to lead the national public laboratory system. In addition the tiered system includes 13 regional reference laboratories, 300 hospital laboratories, and about 3,700 health centre laboratories but their facilities are, generally, inadequate for the scope of services proposed by the project and quality varies significantly among them. To tackle these problems, the government of Ethiopia plans to construct the proposed multipurpose building with the objective to elevate the capacity and status of the institute by establishment of a Proficiency Testing System and panel production for standard quality assurance, Bio-bank Centre for reference materials of all sorts, central warehouse to serve as logistics supply hub and laboratory equipment maintenance center to provide maintenance and calibration services for laboratory medical equipment and sustainable laboratory services without interruption of the services