Members of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) have been urged to be courageous and defend the laws guiding the association.
Uche Odionyenma, national president of the association, advised that they should not allow the forces that seek to weaken the association to succeed, saying that the laws guiding the medical laboratory science practice in the Nigeria were not handed down to them through favour but were sacrifices, advocacy and collective struggle of their predecessors.
“To surrender through silence, fear or convenience would be a grave injustice to history and a betrayal of generations unborn,” Odionyenma said in a message to the members of the association.
He reminded them that the battles fought to keep the soul of the profession are not over, saying that in “2026 we must be clear-eyed; the forces that seek to weaken Medical Laboratory Science through the deliberate disregard for our legal professionally and constitutionally safeguards have not relented.
“The push to ignore extant laws, to bypass established regulatory frameworks, and to diminish the professional autonomy of medical laboratory scientists is not accidental, it is systematic, strategic and if left unchecked threatens not only our present relevance but the future of our profession in Nigeria.”
Odionyenma enjoined medical laboratory scientists, regardless of cadre, local or years of practice, to stand firm, resist all attempts, subtle or overt to erode professional space, and refuse to be complicit in arrangements that violate legal and constitutional provisions.
He charged them to defend the integrity of their training, scope of practice and their indispensable role in healthcare delivery. “This is not a call to hostility; but a call to lawful, unity and professional courage.”
