CV Profile No.72272

Carrying out all tests in the department as a Junior Laboratory Scientist under the HOD and also supervised the students when they came during rotations for training. There was a lot of emphasis on HIV especially with the Kaposi Sacorma patients and many other patients from various clinics at the biggest referral hospital in the country. I also carried Immunofluorescence tests such as antinuclear antibodies, anti-mitochondrial antibodies and the whole range of antinuclear tests. During the weekends and after hour duties. I also had the responsibility of training nurses to carry out the Rapid HIV tests under the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Programme (PMTCT). During this time I also worked at UZUCSF helping with whatever research programmes they had going and got to do PCR and other specialized assays on a part time basis.

Night duty was a one person job carrying out all urgent and non-urgent work. It gave me confidence to comfortably work in any department. I have learnt to prioritise work and act on urgent test sample requests, signing out results as well as telephone abnormal results to Clinicians and to the hospital wards. I was responsible for all work in Chemistry, Haematology, Immunology/Serology, Microbiology and Endocrinology. In Microbiology I carried out all urgent work especially CSFs, urine, blood culture, stool, fluids and swabs. In Haematology, blood film preparation and examination of samples with abnormal parameter was an every night routine. I even had to keep an eye especially timing on the Cytology/Histology samples while they were being fixed in formalin and the cassettes preparation.