A Nigerian laboratory, the Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL), Lagos, recently attained a World Health Organization (WHO) full laboratory accreditation status in respect of its contribution to the fight against measles and rubella in the country. 

The CPHL is one of the laboratories under the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) Measles and Rubella laboratory network.

The WHO full accreditated status is the highest accreditation level that can be achieved by any laboratory.

The centre got the status for serology testing for measles and rubella after an on-site assessment of the facility, for providing a high-quality investigation to support testing and surveillance programme in the control of childhood killer diseases in Nigeria. 

Speaking at a meeting after the assessment of the laboratory, the WHO Country Representative, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, says CPHL’ s achievement of the WHO full accreditation status would improve the country’s effort in its quest to eliminate the childhood killer diseases. a