Summary of activities by year
2015
April 13-30, 2015
Two-and-a-half weeks missions each have been provided in April 2015 by the two SRL experts Dr. Uladzimir Antonenka and Dr. Lubov Nedialkova to the National Reference Laboratory based in the National Tuberculosis Hospital Machiton (Shifo Village, Tajikistan). Development and implementation of QMS components in the TB culture laboratories was conducted. The main aims of the mission were:
Implementation of basic QMS components and improving performance of HAIN MTBDR plus ver. 2.0 in TB diagnostics for NRL Machiton.
Setup and commissioning of the GT-Blot 48 automated hybridization system.
Further elaboration and adjustment of QMS documents and their implementation in NRL Machiton (SOPs for Stock organisation).
Troubleshooting on high contamination rates of LJ and MGIT cultures. Follow-up training on the NALC-NaOH sputum decontamination procedure.
2014
September 22 – October 17, 2014
Following construction of a new National Reference Laboratory on the basis of National Tuberculosis Hospital Machiton (Shifo Village, Tajikistan), SRL Gauting took the responsibility of technical assistance and training of the new NRL team.
The main objectives of the mission were:
Improving performance of routine culture and molecular methods in TB diagnostics (DST on LJ and MGIT, LPA);
Further elaboration and adjustment of QMS documents and their implementation (SOPs for procedures and equipment, general laboratory regulations);
Stock management and warehouse organization.
Development of SOPs for general regulation of TB laboratory network:
o internal quality control for culture laboratories,
o inter-laboratory transportation of samples.
2013
2012
2011
Collaboration agreement signed with SRL Gauting September 2011
NRL Manager: Olim Kabirov
Address: Republican TB Hospital Shifo (Machiton), Vakhdat District, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Email: olim.kabirov@mail.ru