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UNITID LABORATORY STAFF VISITS NATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY LAB IN
CANADA WINNIPEG 22ND -26TH sept 2014
Mr Ernest Lutomia, visited the Public agency of
Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML)
on 22nd -26th September 2014.NML is housed in the
Canadian Science centre for human and animal
health at 1015 Arlington Street in Winnipeg
Mannitoba, Canada.
The long term purpose of this Visit was to receive
training inorder to establish Ebola diagnostic
Laboratory at UNITID, Kenya, Nairobi.
The National Microbiology Laboratory (NML),
Canada is responsible for the identification, control
and prevention of infectious diseases.
The NML is located at the Canadian Science Centre
for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg, the first
facility in the world to have high containment
laboratories for human and animal health in one
building. It is recognized as a leader in an elite
group of centres around the world, equipped with
laboratories ranging from biosafety level 2 to level
4 designed to accommodate the most basic to the
most deadly infectious organisms.
The NML is Canada's main infectious disease public
health laboratory with responsibility for reference
microbiology and quality assurance, laboratory
surveillance for infectious diseases, emergency
outbreak preparedness and response, training, and