Table 1.
Type and Number of Sites Using System for Tracking Epidemiological Data and Laboratory Specimens (STELAB) and Number of Users Trained
| Level | STELAB Sitea | No. of Sitesb | STELAB Users | No. of Users Trainedc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | Teaching hospital surveillance office | 3 | Hospital surveillance officers and data managers | 11 |
| National level laboratory | 5 | Microbiologists | 31 | |
| Directorate of Disease Control | 1 | Lead data managers | 4 | |
| 1 | Laboratory point of contact | 1 | ||
| Directorate of Informatics and Telemedicine (houses server room) | 1 | Information technology technicians | 6 | |
| Regional | Hospital surveillance office | 9 | Regional hospital surveillance officers | 41 |
| Hospital laboratory | 9 | Microbiologists | 87 | |
| District | Surveillance office | 70 | District surveillance officers | 122 |
| Hospital laboratory | 82 | Microbiologists | 258 | |
| Total | 181 | 561 |
Abbreviation: STELAB, System for Tracking Epidemiological Data and Laboratory Specimens.
aFrench terms for surveillance sites: teaching hospital surveillance office (Centre hospitalier universitaire, services de planification et d’information hospitalière/services d’information médicale); national-level laboratory (Laboratoire du niveau national); Directorate of Disease Control (Direction de la Promotion de la Santé de la Population); Directorate of Informatics and Telemedicine (Direction des Services Informatiques et de la Télésanté); regional hospital surveillance office (Centre hospitalier régional, services de planification et d’information hospitalière/services d’information médicale); regional hospital laboratory (Centre hospitalier régional); district surveillance office (Centres d’information sanitaire et de surveillance épidémiologique); district hospital laboratory (Centre médical/centre médical avec antenne chirurgicale).
bAll sites received on-site training and the necessary materials listed in Table 2. Eight districts have >1 district-level laboratory.
cAlthough chiefs of national reference laboratories (n = 5) and chief district medical officers (n = 67) are not primary users of STELAB, they were also trained on STELAB to encourage its use and promote analysis of data for decision making.