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NAIROBI COUNTY: The Government is investigating two laboratories in Nairobi for issuing faulty results to patients.
In one case, a patient with liver complications was being tested for hepatitis and the lab under probe produced two different results.
The first one "confirmed" the patient had the killer disease while the other indicated the patient was not infected.
In the other case, the patient was given a positive test for malaria in one lab and a negative one in another.
Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists (KMLTTB) Board acting Chief Executive Officer Patrick Kisabei said investigations are focused on whether the lab and all its personnel were duly licensed and registered and whether the equipment used had been validated by the board.
"This is a matter of great concern, but we suspect that only unregistered labs being manned by quacks can produce unreliable results. So we warn Kenyans to be on the lookout where they go for lab tests," he said.
The two cases of dodgy results have prompted KMLTTB to launch a fresh crackdown on unlicensed labs across the country to weed out quacks from the business.
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