{
  "id": 15897378,
  "title": "WAPCMLS calls for harmonised training standards to strengthen West Africa’s laboratory workforce",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/wapcmls-calls-for-harmonised-training-standards-to-strengthen-west",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T13:00:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/wapcmls-calls-for-harmonised-training-standards-to-strengthen-west-africas-laboratory-workforce/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The West African Postgraduate College of Medical Laboratory Science (WAPCMLS) has called for stronger regional collaboration to harmonise specialist training standards, improve professional mobility and address the loss of skilled medical laboratory scientists to countries outside West Africa. The call emerged from the College’s 6th Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting, held in Accra…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}