Dr. Agyemang

@PJosaiah @drgyimah Nada

@drgyimah Truth is You guys won’t head the lab in anyway or any form Not gonna happen 🙅

Insecurity?

@Sn_i_pp_er Sia

Adey feel demma pain mmom …imagine doing stool antigen test for H.pylori for all these years and coming out with results only for one physician to wake up and say most of those results were flawed .. chale afit crash out oo bro 🤣💀

@PJosaiah Greed greed greed

It is going to be a very long week for these prescribers who are going on strike for their fellow prescribers names laboratory physicians who claim to have higher laboratory knowledge by doing a fellowship program that Medical laboratory scientist lower tier ( Diploma does ) how much Lab Doctors (MLSD) trained for six years then our fellows If your fellowship is our diploma that should tell you how depleted the knowledge you have acquired is. I have worked is laboratories that have ISO 15189: 2020 certification, Darkks accreditation, I have never in these years even seen LP in these processes You better come with something else than to downplay the intelligence of medical fraternity. If Lab Scientists go on strike today . Do you genuinely think LPs can manage the Laboratory It will collapse We have less Dr to Patient ration instead of focusing on that or a more specialized career like Cardiologist, neurologist, urologist etc You are here claiming LP You people no get shame errrr @labdoctorsghana @tv3_ghana @_iamsamani @ghonetv @Metro_TV

A very unfortunate and pathetic comment from the doctor who granted the interview. They are doing everything possible to dent the reputation and credibility of lab scientists just to have their way. How do you go on national television and talk such rubbish about a fellow health professional?

This is what is done in the UK. After I run my test, I validate it and, depending on my shift, I may also authorise the results. I then transmit my results to the department or the clinician. For specialised tests, I transmit them to the consultant (haematologist, etc.), who carries out the clinical discussion with other practitioners. This can be described as clinical validation. We have Advanced Biomedical Science Leads: Laboratory Managers, Consultant Biomedical Scientists, Biomedical Science Operations Managers, Biomedical Science Leads, Clinical Scientists, Specialist Biomedical Scientists, and Biomedical Scientists. These professionals are regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (similar to AHPC). Clinical Scientists are not medical doctors. They are separate professionals trained under the NHS Specialist Training Programme. Most have Biomedical Science backgrounds and undergo a 3-year MSc plus NHS training. As a Biomedical Scientist, this is a pathway you can choose. There are also Clinical Leads, consultants, and registrars who come to the laboratory for clearly defined roles. Their involvement is required in life-threatening or critical cases, or in reviewing slides first identified by Biomedical Scientists, such as: TMA (TTP, HUS, HELLP), new acute leukaemia (ALL/AML), ITP, high-grade lymphomas or new lymphoma, and overt haemolysis. In these cases, Biomedical Scientists must first detect the abnormalities, add biomedical comments, immediately contact the Clinical Consultant or Registrar, and work together to finalise the case and prepare for further investigations. Slides referred by Biomedical Scientists or Clinical Scientists for additional clinical input. They do not head Biomedical Science professional staff or countersign our work. If general medical practitioners require clarification or interpretation of laboratory reports, this can be provided by Laboratory Science staff or the Clinical Consultant. On several occasions, we advise doctors on patient reports, and doctors often contact the laboratory for guidance. Medical consultants focus on patient care and advising fellow clinicians, while working collaboratively with Biomedical Science professionals to ensure quality patient care.

@dr_bandak Access to do what

I don't think the main issue is “let us head your department.” At least not from what I have gathered. It's mainly about ACCESS to the lab. I don't see how we can't collaborate as health professionals.

@MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak The coursework that they run in those two years I do that in level 200 and 300 of Bsc study, stop the misinformation

@aky_agyemang @dr_bandak Laboratory physicians aren’t trained in 2 years. The training starts from medical school. The basic sciences are everything. They build on that in clinical years and then at residency

Honestly, I would have preferred a different way of handling this. A strike over laboratory access feels like an overreach, especially in a national referral hospital where any disruption immediately affects patients. But the strike is not the real story. The real story is how we got here. Is this a leadership battle, or a territorial battle? If you believe the laboratory should be reserved only for medical laboratory scientists, that is not consistent with how modern diagnostic systems work. If you also believe the laboratory must be led only by laboratory physicians, that is equally incomplete. Those are the two extremes. A serious health system should be able to find a workable middle ground between them. —- The reason this conflict feels so intense is that the laboratory is the center of modern diagnosis. It determines cancer diagnoses, antimicrobial choices, transfusion safety, and clinical decision-making. That is why leading teaching hospitals treat laboratories as diagnostic systems rather than professional territories. ——- Medical laboratory scientists protect the technical reliability of results. They manage testing systems, sample processing, quality control, method validation, instrumentation, accreditation, and workflow. Their core question is: Is this result accurate and reliable? If a test is technically unreliable at Korle Bu, the mere presence of laboratory physicians will not automatically correct that failure. That is why this debate should not be reduced to a vague claim about “validating results.” —- I have also noticed that a few people don't seem to understand what laboratory medicine is about. Laboratory medicine is a well-established specialty. (The history of infectious diseases is one of my favorite topics) Laboratory physicians bring a different function. They connect laboratory findings to diagnosis, specialist reporting, treatment decisions, and complex patient care. Ghana’s own specialist training pathway recognizes laboratory medicine in anatomic pathology, chemical pathology, hematology, and medical microbiology. Their core question is: What does this result mean for the patient? ——- The term “validation” must be separated into at least two levels. Medical laboratory scientists confirm that the sample is acceptable, the instrument worked, quality control passed, and the result is analytically sound. In other words, “Technical Validation.” Laboratory medicine physicians provide clinical validation for a select # of specialist cases. It is worth noting that not every result needs a laboratory physician's sign-out/validation. Most are released through technical validation and approved procedures/protocols. But some tests are different. For example; A biopsy can diagnose cancer. A bone marrow report can diagnose leukemia. Genomic results can shape major clinical decisions. These sometimes require clinical correlation. In most established systems, this is mostly done by laboratory physicians —- If this dispute is mainly about who leads the laboratory, then a better model would be structured co-leadership. A laboratory physician can lead the clinical domain. A medical laboratory scientist should lead the technical and operational/administrative domain. This is what is done in major hospital labs. Then again, I hope this is not merely about “who heads the lab.” And I will be more disappointed if it's also about “ACCESS” —— Healthcare should be organized for patient outcomes and higher standards of care. We can achieve that only through collaboration. Not competing for professional dominance. —- In Johns Hopkins & other major hospitals, laboratory services sit within departments of pathology and laboratory medicine. They have a medical director (usually a laboratory physician/pathologist) and an administrative director (usually a medical laboratory scientist) ——- But what do you think the real issue is? I would love to hear from both sides

@ChimDrag @MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak They train in laboratories coursework in that 6 years?

@aky_agyemang @MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak Lol.. They are first trained as M.Ds before specialist training .. M.Sch is already more than 2yrs

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@MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak Trained in two years to do what I trained 6 years for….you you think you are more competent to validate my results

@dr_bandak Laboratory physicians are asking to be allowed to work in the labs, to do the things they are trained to do. They acknowledge the importance of the scientists and the work they do however unfortunately the scientists don't want the physicians in the lab

@GeorgeAnagli Greedy bunch It will not work!!!

Hmmm

@dr_Sprynga When it reach your turn shift conversation my brother

1/n. If the conversation about healthcare turns into “who controls the lab,” then we’re already missing the point.

@_GhChronicles They will have to scorch the earth! Greedy bunch

Korle Bu Doctors withdraw all OPD services, because Government did not allow them to run the hospital laboratory

@Nana_kesse1 In any serious country Korle bu management should have help an emergency board meeting…the MOH and the GHS should have released statements by now…Ghana enfa

Dr. Asare saying about 50% of lab results are ‘nonsense’ is such an indictment on Korle Bu. He basically threw the entire institution under the bus. I don’t even know if it was a deliberate act to undermine the MLS squad or he just unintentionally goofed with that statement

@metrotvgh Patient safety concerns….nonsense

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My fellow lab professionals, If there’s anything to take from today and the ongoing conversations around KODA and lab practice, it’s this, we need to put our house in order. That means having honest, difficult conversations about our future. Do we strengthen engagement with the Allied Health Professions Council, or is it time to consider a more focused regulatory body that truly understands and advocates for laboratory professionals? This is not about blaming AHPC. But with so many professions under one council, it’s fair to ask whether our specific needs are getting the attention they deserve. We are not a small group. We are a significant part of that system, yet key questions around scope, progression and remuneration remain unresolved. We now have Doctors of Medical Laboratory Science working as biomedical scientists. Where is the clarity in scope? Where is the alignment in structure and pay? These are not comfortable questions, but they are necessary. If we don’t address them now, we will keep having the same debates with no real progress. Yours truly, A colleague who believes we deserve better.

@ys2h4pbkdc @_GhChronicles Like what????

@_GhChronicles Which part of ur training involves history taking, clinical exam, interpretation of imaging and the correlation of such to lab results? There’s a reason why lab physicians who are medical doctors exist. They have information you as mls won’t have. U r both great at your jobs

“The person doing the lab doesn’t have the training to determine whether this lab and the clinical findings match” -Korle-Bu Doctors Association (KODA Rep) Listen to the nonsense this doctor is spewing

@_GhChronicles Such stupid and ignorant statements Which people teach you that specialist course?

@dr_berkai Bunch of controlling folks We will never accept this nonsense

“The person doing the lab doesn’t have the training to determine whether this lab and the clinical findings match” -Korle-Bu Doctors Association (KODA Rep)