Agrippa- Quality MedLab Scientist

Agrippa- Quality MedLab Scientist Biomedical Laboratory Scientist/
Quality Management Systems Specialist/
Public Speaker/ Coperate MC/
Poet

"๐–๐„ ๐๐„๐‘๐…๐Ž๐‘๐Œ ๐ˆ๐๐‚ ๐ƒ๐€๐ˆ๐‹๐˜" ๐–๐‡๐Ž ๐†๐”๐ˆ๐ƒ๐„๐ƒ ๐˜๐Ž๐”? One of the major activities we do in the laboratory to ensure accuracy in testing...
15/04/2026

"๐–๐„ ๐๐„๐‘๐…๐Ž๐‘๐Œ ๐ˆ๐๐‚ ๐ƒ๐€๐ˆ๐‹๐˜" ๐–๐‡๐Ž ๐†๐”๐ˆ๐ƒ๐„๐ƒ ๐˜๐Ž๐”?

One of the major activities we do in the laboratory to ensure accuracy in testing patient samples is performing Internal Quality Control.

We are accustomed to doing it daily such that we forgot to ask the questions;

๐’‰๐’๐’˜ ๐’๐’‡๐’•๐’†๐’ ๐’”๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’† ๐’…๐’ ๐’Š๐’• ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’•๐’Š๐’„๐’–๐’๐’‚๐’“ ๐’•๐’†๐’”๐’•?

๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’…๐’Š๐’… ๐’˜๐’† ๐’‚๐’“๐’“๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‚๐’• ๐’๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’…๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’š ๐’‡๐’“๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’†๐’๐’„๐’š?

IQC frequency can vary from test to test and lab to lab and here is why;

For each examination method, frequency is based on the stability and robustness of the examination method and the risk of harm to the patient from an erroneous result.

๐๐ˆ๐‹๐ˆ๐๐„ ๐๐”๐‹๐”๐‹๐” ๐๐€๐๐‚๐‡๐ˆ๐“๐Ž( ๐ˆ ๐‡๐€๐•๐„ ๐๐Ž ๐‘๐„๐‹๐€๐“๐ˆ๐•๐„ ๐€๐“ ๐–๐Ž๐‘๐Š)The pharse is very common in different fields and people who took it ...
13/04/2026

๐๐ˆ๐‹๐ˆ๐๐„ ๐๐”๐‹๐”๐‹๐” ๐๐€๐๐‚๐‡๐ˆ๐“๐Ž( ๐ˆ ๐‡๐€๐•๐„ ๐๐Ž ๐‘๐„๐‹๐€๐“๐ˆ๐•๐„ ๐€๐“ ๐–๐Ž๐‘๐Š)

The pharse is very common in different fields and people who took it seriously understand or use it differently.

Some use it to betray colleagues by means of non- objective discrediting to management, stealing credit and strategically setting them up for failure while tagged to the same project. This group smiles and digs information while having showed up last minute.

Others use it to be alert to those colleagues who may potentially sabotage them. This group doesn't joke around, they act protective and at most serious. They sometimes work in solitude but push work.

While it is true that we have no relatives at work, playing around with the phrase has brought one effect; distance between colleagues o get to work in uncoordinated manner.

I for one, believe in forming better professional relationships and I have benefited skill sharpening and honest sharing of useful information from the same.

๐–๐‡๐€๐“ ๐ˆ ๐“๐‡๐Ž๐”๐†๐‡๐“ ๐–๐€๐’ ๐€ ๐๐„๐’๐“ ๐–๐€๐˜ ๐“๐Ž ๐’๐“๐€๐‘๐“ ๐€ ๐๐€๐’๐ˆ๐‚ ๐๐Œ๐’ ๐“๐„๐€๐‚๐‡๐ˆ๐๐†..Another memory of a beautiful smiley people as we reduce sp...
11/04/2026

๐–๐‡๐€๐“ ๐ˆ ๐“๐‡๐Ž๐”๐†๐‡๐“ ๐–๐€๐’ ๐€ ๐๐„๐’๐“ ๐–๐€๐˜ ๐“๐Ž ๐’๐“๐€๐‘๐“ ๐€ ๐๐€๐’๐ˆ๐‚ ๐๐Œ๐’ ๐“๐„๐€๐‚๐‡๐ˆ๐๐†..

Another memory of a beautiful smiley people as we reduce space of the gallery, it reminded me of how I started to deliver a partial package of ISO 15189;2022.

I shared,

When you are starting up something that will be complex, whether Laboratory or any other scalable business, you need to consider the following:

1. General ideas of responsibilities (who is going to handle what), ethical values and how information will be managed. That's clause 4

2. Legal requirements which are registrations with relevant bodies. You will also, picture who will be the director, who will work on what, the skills they need and define the activities of your business. That's clause 5

3.Resources to run; man power, equipment and software, a building facility to perform activities from. That's cause 6

4.You need to define the process where your product of service begins and ends in a systemic way because you dont want chipantapante. That's clause 7

5. When all the above are in place, how do you manage service delivery, and improve services? How do you evaluate your management and monitor improvements? Quality Management Systems are born here. That's clause 8

๐Ÿ’ฅThe above was delivered in form of story/ ordinary chat before diving into the actual clauses with the prepared material for presentation.

๐Ÿ’ฅInformation is appreciated without concentrating hard.

๐‘ฐ๐’ ๐‘ฐ๐‘บ๐‘ถ 15189;2022 ๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’Ž๐’”: 4. ๐‘ฎ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’Š๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’”, 5. ๐‘บ๐’•๐’“๐’–๐’„๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’‚๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’ˆ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’Š๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’”, 6. ๐‘น๐’†๐’”๐’๐’–๐’“๐’„๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’Š๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’”, 7. ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’“๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’Š๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… 8. ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐‘บ๐’š๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’Ž๐’” ๐’“๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’Š๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’”.


10/04/2026

๐‹๐€๐“๐„ ๐ƒ๐„๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„๐‘๐˜ ๐Ž๐… ๐„๐—๐“๐„๐‘๐๐€๐‹ ๐๐”๐€๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐˜ ๐€๐’๐’๐„๐’๐’๐Œ๐„๐๐“ ๐๐€๐๐„๐‹๐’

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’”๐’‚๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’† ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’• 16:40 ๐’Š๐’•'๐’” ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’† ๐’”๐’ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’š ๐’Š๐’” ๐‘ฌ๐‘ธ๐‘จ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’?

in trying to delete old pictures I have found one that was taken almost two years ago at an EQA review meeting.

I thought it is important to share and remind each other on one or two points of EQA handling.

When we asked why some facilities submitted EQA results late and some missed the deadline, the response was, late delivery of EQA panels.
" if panels are late they reach one or two days before the deadline," I tried to counter. They insisted that it was still late.

I shared the following:

๐Ÿ‘‰ EQA panels should be treated like patient samples
๐Ÿ‘‰ Put them on the queue with other patient samples
๐Ÿ‘‰ Should be run by staff running routine samples
๐Ÿ‘‰ There should no be special staff running EQAs
๐Ÿ‘‰ results submitted by staff running routines

"Sometimes we run out of reagents, so we have to source and in the process, time run out."

We discussed, as end user participants:

๐Ÿ‘‰ We need to anticipate for EQAs
๐Ÿ‘‰ Need to know the circle dates
๐Ÿ‘‰ Should care more about quality than the sender of EQAs
๐Ÿ‘‰ This mindset will help you follow up on EQAs rather than been on the waiting side and surprised receipts.

Note: sometimes reagents may be completely stocked out and there is no where to turn to at that particular moment but, feedback has to be given on the EQA platform.

Biomedical Laboratory Scientist/
Quality Management Systems Specialist/
Public Speaker/ Coperate MC/
Poet

04/02/2026

๐ˆ ๐…๐„๐„๐‹ ๐–๐Ž๐‘๐ƒ๐’ ๐–๐ˆ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐ ๐Œ๐„, ๐๐”๐“ ๐Œ๐˜ ๐Œ๐Ž๐”๐“๐‡ ๐‚๐€๐๐๐Ž๐“ ๐‚๐Ž๐๐’๐“๐‘๐”๐‚๐“ ๐“๐‡๐„๐Œ.

I do not know much about cancer but I know what it means to have a terminal illness through indirect experience. It brings a lot of emotions to the patient who does not see a future of healing but journey to the dark.

It brings despair to those around the patient and fear of losing their loved one, even to the extent of having bad dreams. I lost mum to a long illness.

The theme ๐‘ผ๐‘ต๐‘ฐ๐‘ป๐‘ฌ๐‘ซ ๐‘ฉ๐’€ ๐‘ผ๐‘ต๐‘ฐ๐‘ธ๐‘ผ๐‘ฌ for worlds cancer day pushes me to participate in the campaign. I may not have a friend or relative with cancer but I can show care through solidarity chants, so you can.

This will help us to be at the centre of care, calling for a shift away from viewing cancer care solely through the traditional lens of biology and symptoms, and towards approaches that recognise each person's lived experience. (๐ต๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ-๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ, 2026)

I have seen a brother and leader in my laboratory professional career Mr Talkmore Maruta who is a cancer survivor doing soliderity walks and it inspired me to write this poetry piece.

Today we can all stand as those without words because our mouths can not construct but our hearts can feel to comfort the affected through posting


What is your stance on this particular clause of the HPCZ professional code of ethics with regards to personal life? ๐๐ž๐ซ...
26/01/2026

What is your stance on this particular clause of the HPCZ professional code of ethics with regards to personal life?

๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง.

A health practitioner should observe proper standards of personal behaviour, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ. This is the reason why the conviction of a health practitioner for any offence may lead to disciplinary proceedings even if the offence is not directly connected with the health practitioner's profession. In particular, four areas of personal behaviour can be identified which may occasion
disciplinary proceedings. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž:- ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ฅ๐œ๐จ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐š๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐/๐จ๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ.

26/01/2026

It was great to be part of the CCHL 2025 Management Review Meeting

When attending events, before the professional camera flashes, we use our own gadgets to freeze memories.Lately I have b...
13/01/2026

When attending events, before the professional camera flashes, we use our own gadgets to freeze memories.

Lately I have been falling in love with this picture simply because it reminds me of how a smiley guy I once was and I wish to bring it back.

๐ˆ๐ ๐๐”๐€๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐˜ ๐€๐’๐’๐”๐‘๐€๐๐‚๐„ ๐„๐๐€ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐€๐’ ๐ˆ๐Œ๐๐Ž๐‘๐“๐€๐๐“ ๐€๐’ ๐ˆ๐๐‚.when we ask many people about the practice they do in ensuring laborator...
05/01/2026

๐ˆ๐ ๐๐”๐€๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐˜ ๐€๐’๐’๐”๐‘๐€๐๐‚๐„ ๐„๐๐€ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐€๐’ ๐ˆ๐Œ๐๐Ž๐‘๐“๐€๐๐“ ๐€๐’ ๐ˆ๐๐‚.

when we ask many people about the practice they do in ensuring laboratory quality, they bring up the running of Internal Quality Control and less of External Quality Assessment panels.

Now look, IQC is a horizontal activity which checks and controls you daily accuracy as you run samples. But trends may shift slowly away from acceptable ranges over time which sometimes maybe tricky to notice.

This is where EQA comes in as a vertical activity to check what has been happening covering wide reasonable period of time detecting those systemic errors.

If you are passionate about processing samples accurately for better patient management, you will treat EQA panels as equal to IQA samples and start looking out for the periodically.

Below is a picture to appreciate a 2025 memory when we oriented a private on participating in an EQA program.

"I thank God for the blessing of life and reaching me thus far" statement is Common especially in this end of year perio...
31/12/2025

"I thank God for the blessing of life and reaching me thus far" statement is Common especially in this end of year period. Yes it shows gratitude, but to us as individuals, are we able to systematically reflect on ourselves to ensure we are fully aware of ourselves and see where we can work on? Lets not follow suit with posting the statement we "try next year" without proper reflection.

the best to you all as we end the year.

29/12/2025

๐„๐—๐“๐„๐‘๐๐€๐‹ ๐๐”๐€๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐˜ ๐€๐’๐’๐„๐’๐’๐Œ๐„๐๐“ ๐‘๐„๐‚๐Ž๐‘๐ƒ๐’

This video is a build up of EQA handling.

๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก 4 ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก 3 ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก 4 ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž...

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