Day 1 in Windhoek, Namibia

Our objective on this trip to Namibia is to do a post assessment at the 3 hospitals we performed a pre-assessment on in May 2010. These hospitals are working to earn international accreditation status for their laboratories. Through ASCP we delivered a BLOT (Basic Laboratory Operations Training) Workshop last May. We toured Windhoek Central Hospital Lab today. The lab has successfully completed 2 Improvement Projects and staff moral and excitement is readily apparent from their accomplishments!

Our NIP (Namibia Institute of Pathology) colleague and host, Mathew took Beverly and I to an authenic Namibian restaurant for lunch. I am including pictures of the lab and of our delightful lunch!! The Chief Technlogist at the hospital lab, Douglas, is also in the picture along with Mathew, me and Traveling Tommy!