Laboratory Technician for NCD Project

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization, founded in 1971 and working in 70 countries around the world. MSF provides medical assistance to populations in crisis, regardless of race, religion, belief or political affiliation. In PNG, MSF has been working since 2007 in Lae, Tari and Bougainville. MSF is now working in support to the Department of Health to improve access to care for tuberculosis patients in Gulf Province and NCD Province.


JOB PROFILE
Objectives for MSF Intervention in NCD
In 2015, MSF-F has started to work in Gerehu Hospital.
The main objective is to reduce the morbidity, mortality and burden of TB and more specifically:

• To provide support to the facilities in their detection capacities, improving diagnosis for DS and DR-TB cases
• To provide support for better access to the treatment and TB care.
• Reinforce the patients’ follow up (DR-TB and DS-TB), especially strengthening the networking activities with referral laboratories for TB confirmatory tests and side effects blood tests (DR-TB patients especially).
• Actively support data collection and analysis for epidemiology and public health related activities.
• Improve infection control in the health facilities.
• Assist clinical team in proper collection and transport of sputum to the Gerehu TB laboratory and proper storage of samples received.
• Prepare and read sputum smear slides with a turn-around-time (TAT) of 72 hours or 24 hours in case of priority given by medical request
• Perform TB PCR using GeneXpert with a TAT of 72 hours or 24 hours in case of priority given by medical request
• Register and assist in preparing samples for blood tests, culture and DST and ensure the correct packaging and transport.
• Follow all the administrative procedures, registering the patient’s data and his/her tests’ results and keeping them confidential.
• Proper registration of patients’ data, sample collections and results in order to keep a written track of the activity and to ensure proper reporting, ensuring confidentiality at time.
• To produce laboratory analysis of adequate quality
• Participate in any other related activities as requested by the line manager

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