The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has certified the Max Hanoman Medical Centre Laboratory under its Laboratory Certification Programme, after it successfully demonstrated conformance to the requirements of the Guyana Standard (GYS 170:2009) – General requirements for the operation of a laboratory.
A release from the GNBS said that the certificate, which is valid for two years, was formally handed over to the laboratory on Thursday, May 13, 2021. At the presentation ceremony, Andrea Mendonca, Head of Certification at the GNBS presented the certificate to Dr. Carlin Alexie Hanoman, the Laboratory Director.
In addressing those at the event, Mendonca extended congratulations to the management and staff of the laboratory for achieving certification to the National Laboratory Standard. She added that “attaining certification is a testimony of being a ‘yardstick of quality’ and striving for quality should become a way of life.”
In response, the release said that Dr. Hanoman expressed gratitude to the GNBS and the laboratory team for making the certification possible, even as she admitted that certification of the Laboratory was one of her personal goals.
The Max Hanoman Medical Centre Laboratory of Lot 7 Brickdam, Stabroek applied to the GNBS for certification in mid-February of this year, and after a successful assessment audit of its management system by the GNBS in April, certification was granted. The release said that the scope for certification covers Haematology, Biochemistry, Urology, Serology, Microbiology and Immunology.
Currently, there are twenty clinical and testing laboratories certified by the GNBS, the release said.
