Lab Technician

General Responsibilities -

• Accession and sort specimens, verify labeling, log samples, and reject those not meeting testing criteria while informing the OCC department. Request fresh samples when applicable.
• Serve as a technical resource by participating in staff training.
• Identify and communicate abnormal patient conditions and critical alerts, informing the Pathologist and Patient/Attendant. Obtain clinical history and correlate with sample for abnormal results.
• Assist in the preparation of Test Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Enter test results via interfacing and save reports in IT dose for final approval by the Pathologist.
• Maintain patient confidentiality by ensuring laboratory information remains secure. Coordinate with service engineers in case of instrument breakdown.
• Discard samples as per the sample retention policy.
• Maintain adequate stock levels to ensure uninterrupted testing.
• Ensure test results are processed within the defined Turn-Around-Time (TAT).
• Perform lot-to-lot verification of Quality Controls (QCs) and reagents.
• Follow up on outsourced test reports sent by the lab.
• Ensure TAT compliance for outsourced tests, and attach received reports to the IT dose. 2. Biochemistry
• Provide test results for patient diagnosis and treatment by operating chemistry equipment.
  • Maintain instruments as per the scheduled maintenance plan.
• Run proficiency testing samples and maintain calibration records.
• Enter QC summaries into designated files.
• Ensure quality results by running standards and controls, verifying equipment functionality through routine maintenance and troubleshooting, calibrating instruments using approved procedures, and monitoring quality control measures and protocols.
• Haematology & Clinical Pathology - Generate test results for patient diagnosis and treatment by operating haematology instruments.
• Run EQAS samples for haematology testing.
• Enter QC summaries into designated files.
• Ensure quality results by running standards and controls, verifying equipment functionality through routine maintenance and troubleshooting, calibrating instruments using approved procedures, and monitoring quality control measures and protocols.

Serology -

• Perform rapid card tests to provide test results for patient diagnosis. Inform the lab head in case of positive test results and release results following the due procedure.
• Release HIV-positive test results only after confirmation per NACO guidelines, inform the Lab Head, and send the sample to the reference lab for confirmation