6. Supported Laboratory Disciplines

The Malawi LIMS documentation identifies the following laboratory disciplines and services as supported: 

 

 Clinical Chemistry 

 Hematology 

 Microbiology 

 Blood Bank 

 Molecular Diagnostics 

 HIV Viral Load 

 Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) 

 Tuberculosis (TB) 

 Malaria 

 COVID-19 

 General Laboratory Services 

 

 The breadth of supported disciplines demonstrates that the LIMS is intended to serve as a national laboratory information ecosystem , rather than a system dedicated to a single disease programme or laboratory service