KUWAIT, Aug 4 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's national polio laboratory has passed with full 100 percent marks the World Health Organization's Global Polio Laboratory Network's proficiency testing program (WHO GPLN), the Health Ministry said on Monday.
The global health body's GPLN test is a major indicator of efficiency and accuracy when it comes to the detection and diagnosis of poliovirus through the use of PCR amplification, the ministry's public health department chief Fahad Al-Ghamlas said in a statement.
The WHO accreditation was a testament to the Kuwaiti polio laboratory's commitment to "sustainable" quality in its efforts to detect and identify cases of polio virus, all of which comply with global laboratory practices and procedures, he underlined.
On the Kuwaiti polio laboratory's WHO GPLN test passing, the ministry's laboratory department head Dr. Sara Al-Qabandi attributed the success to the "competence" of health ministry staff, in addition to the use of modern and cutting-edge equipment, she said. (end) mrf.nam