Kenya faces shortage of Animal health lab auditors as region moves to boost disease detection

NAIROBI,Kenya, Oct 19 — Kenya has only nine qualified animal health laboratory auditors, a shortage that could hamper efforts to expand accreditation and strengthen early detection of infectious diseases, a…

Romona Ndanyi, Deputy Director of Veterinary Services at the Directorate of Veterinary Services, Kenya said the country needed more trained auditors to assess laboratories, maintain quality standards and support facilities being established by county governments.

The warning comes as Kenya hosts a regional training workshop bringing together representatives from nine African countries to build a pool of trainers and auditors under the newly introduced QualiPath framework.

The initiative, supported through the World Bank-funded Health Emergency Preparedness and Response programme, seeks to strengthen animal health laboratory systems and improve their readiness to detect diseases that can spread from animals to humans.

Source: Capital FM