Experience

SANBS

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Laboratory Technician

  • Dec 2011 - Present

  Received Blood, Label available stock according S.O.P, Prepare and dispatch product to blood banks, Split platelets, Prepare whole blood for exchange, Run eligibility report, Produce platelets products, Produce paediatric red cell units, Filter red cell platelets product, Batch\distribute the required number of units, Discard unsafe and unsuitable donation, Communicating with blood banks , taking blood products orders over the phone and email, Completing the orders and liaising with transport departments/courier, Arranging transportation and tracking of blood products to right destination. Monitoring laboratory and blood fridges temperatures and log tasks on the system when they are out of range, contact maintenance for fridges that are not working, monitor back up generator and when there is power failure. Interpreting the business intelligence, managing the dash board by making sure no units expire on site and all batches sent to our site are closed, check units that are not resulted and making follow ups with the relevant donation testing laboratory. Batch contaminated within the required time frame. Do monthly filing and archiving of reports and traceability reports. Show less



Ampath Laboratories

• South Africa
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Laboratory Assistant

  • Apr 2011 - Nov 2011

  Hub tracking of specimens, checking the requisition on the specimen and the container of the specimen if they correspond with the requisition number on the batch and the tests requested to be done, receiving specimens on meditech, loading of specimens in different racks for different tests, loading racks of specimens on MPA and running the MPA, monitoring the MPA, making sure that the specimens aliquots well and go to right modular for right dilutions. Pooling of specimens with pending results, filling specimens on meditech and 4 discarding specimens on meditech after 7 days. Recording temperatures for fridges daily, decontaminating work areas, calibrating scales and centrifuges. Show less