| Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Chapter Author | Page No. |
| 1 | National Policy and Planfor health Laboratories | | 1 |
| 1.1 Role of laboratory Services in the health System | | 1 |
| 1.2 Developing Policy Guidelines and Setting Priorities | | 1 |
| 1.3 Monitoring and Evaluation | | 6 |
| 2 | Essential elements of the national Health Laboratory Policy and national health Laboratory Plan | | 7 |
| 2.1 Laboratory Organizational and management Structure | | 7 |
| 2.2 national Standards for Infrastructure, tests, techniques and equipment | | 10 |
| 2.3 human Resource Management | | 11 |
| 2.4 Quality Management Systems | | 13 |
| 2.5 Procurement and Supplies management | | 14 |
| 2.6 Laboratory information Management System | | 15 |
| 2.7 Laboratory information Management System | | 16 |
| 2.8 safety and waste Management | | 16 |
| 2.9 Laboratory Financing | | 17 |
