"The Municipality" begins procedures to qualify health prevention laboratories for accreditation

This step comes within the department's efforts to develop institutional performance, raise the efficiency of its staff, and consolidate quality practices and continuous improvement, in preparation for completing the accreditation requirements.

The department has prepared a proposed roadmap for qualifying medical laboratories, starting with forming the work team, defining responsibilities and the scope of tests targeted for accreditation, qualifying staff, and assessing the gap between the current situation and the standard's requirements, then preparing an implementation plan that defines procedures, resources, responsibilities, and target dates.

The roadmap includes documenting the quality system, standardizing pre-examination, examination, and post-examination procedures, controlling documents and records, and risk management, in addition to evaluating staff competence, qualifying and calibrating equipment, and verifying examination methods.

It also includes applying procedures, implementing internal quality control and external quality assessment programs, documenting results, conducting internal audits, management reviews, and addressing non-conformities, leading to submitting the accreditation application to the competent authority, completing the assessment, and addressing observations, in preparation for obtaining accreditation within the scope of the targeted tests.