Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Uganda National Health Laboratory Services Policy 2009
Health Risk Environment
Other
Description
The underlying philosophy and rationale of this policy is that health laboratory services are essential for the delivery of quality health care and should be made available to all the people of Uganda. Poor health laboratory services subject patients to inappropriate treatments, chronic ill-health, high out-of-pocket expenditures on health care, loss of incomes and ultimately loss of confidence in health services. Moreover, poor laboratory services are also costly in terms of high wastage of scarce public resources on ineffective treatments, loss of economic productivity of the population due to chronic illness and loss of life.