Commentary

Sierra Leone laboratory systems – now and future

Isatta Wurie
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 5, No 3 | a549 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v5i3.549 | © 2016 Isatta Wurie | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 23 August 2016 | Published: 31 October 2016

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Isatta Wurie, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

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Keywords

Emergency Preparedness; Laboratory systems; Resilience

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