Abstract:
The present study was carried out to evaluate the microbiological laboratories
performance in private sectors in term of processing urine and swab samples for
isolation, identification the bacteria and availability of requirements for susceptibility
test. The study had done through two phases, before intervention phases where the
current situation of these laboratories was reported, intervention course where the
study group was instructed to select of media, proper system of identification and
necessary items for susceptibility test. The intervention did not involve control group,
the study group involved seven laboratories and control group involved four
laboratories. The result of pre-intervention phase showed that both groups applied
proper type of media in case of urine samples while in swab samples only 1(14%) and
1(25%) of study group and control group applied right media, entirely study population
did not applied identification scheme. The study group and control group in pre-
intervention phase did not had internal quality control for susceptibility test and
applied rough method to measure the zone of inhibition, 2(29%) of study group and
1(25%) of control group did not had maccfarland reagent.The result after intervention
phase of study group revealed (100%) response to primary protocol of urine and swab
samples isolation and identification bacteria scheme while no change had occurred in
control group. In susceptibility test the study group showed (88%) comply to test
requirements where as no improvement had occurred in control group.
