Laboratories play a major role in meeting sustainability goals, say health experts speaking at Medlab Middle East

Laboratories play a major role in meeting sustainability goals, say health experts speaking at Medlab Middle East

- Diagnostic labs should follow strict international guidelines to ensure high sustainability standards

- Medlab Middle East also hosted the Lab Sustainability Awards

- Winner of the Awards announced as the Dubai Police Lab

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The sustainability strategies of clinical laboratories are crucial to reducing the environmental burden of the healthcare sector, according to a panel of global leaders speaking at the ‘Sustainability in the clinical lab conference’ at Medlab Middle East 2023. Laboratories were under the spotlight of this discussion due to their high energy and water requirements and the use of disposables and plastic materials.

Medlab 2023 is championing sustainability with a show theme of ‘paving the way for technological advancements and sustainability in laboratory medicine’. Opening the session was Prof. Damien Gruson, head of the department of Clinical Biochemistry of the Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, and Dr Rana Nabulsi, Head of Operations and Quality-Pathology and Genetics at Dubai Health Authority (DHA), she said: “Climate change is a big responsibility for us all. It is a global issue that we all need to devote our attention, commitment, and leadership.

“2023 is mandated by the UAE Government to be the ‘year of sustainability’, and Dubai will host COP 28 in