“LaboMedCamp”: a network of laboratories in rural areas of Mali

The project undertaken by Santé Sud and its partners in Mali aims to establish medical analysis laboratories in the Community Health Centers  managed by doctors in rural areas. The role of these laboratories is to improve the quality of diagnoses and the care given to patients at the first level of contact in the health system and to facilitate the monitoring of certain chronic illnesses. Given the encouraging results obtained during the implementation of the first two phases of the LABOMEDCAMP, a third phase of this project is necessary to ensure the consolidation of what has already been achieved and to export this successful model to other isolated regions. 

The aims of this project are both to establish new laboratories in rural community health centers headed by doctors and to continue assisting and supporting the human resources of the 17 laboratories previously established, via training, monitoring and recycling. The plan is also to upgrade these 17 laboratories’ equipment and biosecurity conditions in accordance with the maximum package of measures that will be revised.