Medlab Middle East to focus on reducing the carbon footprint of resource-intensive medical laboratories

Medlab Middle East to focus on reducing the carbon footprint of resource-intensive medical laboratories

Discussions on how to address sustainability in the laboratory will be in focus on the exhibition show floor when Medlab Middle East returns to the Dubai World Trade Centre from 6 – 9 February

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Medlab Middle East has announced a vital focus of the MENA region’s largest medical laboratory exhibition and congress in 2023 will be driving sustainable operations and ensuring laboratories are taking steps to future-proof their operations.

According to data from the non-profit organisation My Green Lab, laboratories consume ten times the power and four times the water of commercial office space and generate an average of 5.5 million metric tonnes of plastic rubbish annually.

As part of Medlab Middle East this year, various presentations and discussions will take place around redesigning old laboratories, refocusing laboratory technicians, optimising laboratory practices, addressing energy consumption, and recycling, with a particular focus on plastics.

Tom Coleman, Exhibition Director, Informa Markets Healthcare, said: “Firstly, it is crucial to address the huge role the laboratory industry has had in developing medical advances which have helped shape the healthcare industry, most recently, the work carried out in the fight against COVID-19, with diagnosis, monitoring, development of vaccines, testing protocols, and testing kits all done