Kuwait’s national polio laboratory has passed with full 100 percent marks the World Health Organization’s Global Polio Laboratory Network’s proficiency testing programme (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.