New State of the Art Southern Nationalities, Nations and Peoples Region Regional Laboratory in Hawassa City
New State of the Art Southern Nationalities, Nations and Peoples Region Regional Laboratory in Hawassa City Fig 1: His Excellency President Shiferaw Shegute Right top corner: Rendering of the SNNPR Regional laboratory SNNPR President H.E Shiferaw Shegute, Ethiopian Minister of Health, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Ato Kare Chawicha Regional Health Bureau Head and Country Director of the United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Tom Kenyon, and invited guests broke ground on the construction of a new SNNPR Regional Laboratory in the city of Hawassa in SNNPR on June 30, 2011 within walking distance from the Hawassa Regional Referral Hospital The New SNNPR Regional Laboratory will augment the current Hawassa Regional Laboratory, which is one of the six regional labs in the country to be upgraded to support DNA PCR and TB culture, DST and Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory supporting four sub-regional laboratories situated in Hossana, Arbaminch, Mizan and Jinka. The Ne