Node Status
Learning Objectives
Describe the Lab Network in NTEP and the broad functions handled at each level.
Sub Nodes
- Roles of NRLs
- Roles of IRLs
- CDST labs and their role
- NAAT Labs and their role
- Functions of a Designated Microscopy Centres [DMC]
- Sputum Collection centres
- Types of Health Facilities in the Private Sector: Private Labs
- Laboratory Technicians: Terms of Reference [TORs] at the Intermediate Reference Laboratory
- Classification of TB Laboratories
- Moderate-risk TB Laboratories
- Revolutions per minute [RPM] vs Relative centrifugal force [RCF] in the Safety Centrifuge
- Low-risk TB Laboratories
- Intermediate Reference Laboratories [IRL] and their role
- National Reference Laboratories [NRL]