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June 2016
 

15 June 2016

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (left) in discussion with Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC), Sharonmae Shirley, during the agency's World Accreditation Day dinner and awards ceremony at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on June 9, 2016.

JANAAC calls for more Medical Labs to be Accredited

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 15 Jun 2016    hbembridge   
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC), Sharonmae Shirley, is calling for more local medical laboratories to become accredited. “We want you as consumers to agitate so that your medical practitioners…will request medical tests from accredited laboratories,” she said. Ms. Shirley was addressing the World Accreditation Day dinner and awards ceremony at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on June 9, where an accreditation certificate was presented to the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL). The accreditation was for four of the NPHL’s...


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