Sharing session: Establishing an Emergency Team for Covid-19 Diagnosis :UMBI's Experience


Leadership and Management

Leadership Role in a Team

Strategies to overcome covid-19 pandemic

Use of precision medicine approach to confirm diagnosis with laboratory method to controls the spreads of the virus and better allocation of hospital resources

Identification of the patient

Patient must be presented with clinical manifestation within 10 days of exposure

Early identification & timely medical intervention to prevent rapid spread of the virus

Motivate the team accountable for the work

Empower team members to work at their full potential

Takes responsibility for decision-making

Keep plan moving forwards

A successful leadership required teamwork effort

Secret recipe for Mature Leadership

Successfull team walk together with mature leadership

Teams to initiate Covid-19 Lab

Higher Administration

Technical Team

Role and tasks distributed according to skills and capability of team member

Head = lease with higher level (eg MOH, MOSTI) regarding budget, process and rules of regulation on the SOP

involve management of work flow from setting up the lab and instrument until result reporting

Technical team

Purchasing team

Registration, Reporting & SIMKA team

Swab team

Heat inactivation & Unboxing team

RNA extraction team

RP PCR team

Leadership Theories in Disease Outbreak Management

Encouragement to staff

Partnership

Communication/liaison with external sectors

Collaboration between government agencies

Positional Power

Leader-manner relation

Task Structure

Inspirational motivation

Idealized influence

Individualized consideration

Action Taken

Proper planning

Sufficient staff

Training of staff

Two-way Communication

Adequate resources and equipment such as PPE, reagents, consumables

Face the Challenges

Shortage in Extraction Kit, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Delay Arrival of Consumable

Lab Contamination Issues

Turn around time Control

Budget

Staffing

Choosing the methods & kit for Covid-19 testing

Prepared by: P119776
MSc Biomedic 2022/2023