Public Health Laboratory Directorate

Mr. Girma Wondimu, Public Health Laboratory Directorate Director

The Central Ethiopia Region Public Health Laboratory Directorate plays a crucial role in strengthening the public health system by providing high-quality laboratory services that support disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and clinical diagnostics. The directorate ensures accurate, timely, and reliable laboratory testing to enhance disease prevention, control, and response efforts across the region.

Objectives

  • Enhancing Public Health Surveillance and Disease Detection
  • Providing Advanced Diagnostic Services
  • Ensuring Laboratory Quality and Accreditation
  • Capacity Building and Training of Laboratory Professionals
  • Supporting Public Health Research and Innovation
  • Ensuring Biosafety and Biosecurity
  • Improving Supply Chain Management for Laboratory Commodities

Through these objectives and activities, the Central Ethiopia Region Public Health Laboratory Directorate plays a critical role in safeguarding public health by ensuring high-quality diagnostic services, supporting disease surveillance, and enhancing laboratory capacity across the region.

Public Health Laboratory Directorate

Customers

  • Institutions that deliver Health service: Health institutions which need EQA, laboratory diagnostic activities, and training
  • Public health emergency management core process: Up-to-date and reliable laboratory test results which help in epidemic control
  • Medical Services: Information which help in quality laboratory service
  • Health and health services and product quality control authority: Reliable laboratory result which help in water and food quality control
  • Health research and Technology transfer support process: Information based on laboratory evidence

Stakeholders

  • Ministry of Health
  • EHNRI
  • Partners:Work in collaboration to improve the laboratory quality service
  • Water development sector:Protecting the society from water born diseases by providing water quality control
  • Medias

Activities

  • External Quality Assessment (EQA): Laboratory tests of  TB, Malaria, HIV, and others checked for their quality in the branch and our institutions
  • Laboratory Diagnostic Activities:The public health laboratory performs diagnostic activities which are not performed in other health care delivery institutions.
  • Clinical Bacteriology Activities: Culture and antibiotic sensitivity tests performed for different clinical specimens/patients requested from different institutions
  • Water and Food analysis:Water and food analysis performed according to the need of the regulatory process of the bureau
  • Early Infants(<18 month) HIV diagnosis using DNA PCR:DNA PCR tests performed for early infants who born from HIV positive mothers across the whole region samples referred from ART hospitals and health centers
  • Referral service for CD4, Hematology, and Chemistry: Provide referral linkage for ART HCs which do not have this tests
  • Conducting Training on laboratory tests: Training on laboratory based tests conducted throughout the region