Quality control recruitment

QualiiKed Competent Staff. Although the Gulf States are developing countries, because of their formidable financial advantage, the Ministry of Health of these states recruits excellent (qualified and competent) staff. The heads of the Ministry of Health, Regulatory Affairs in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE are either medical doctors or pharmacists. Similarly, the heads of the Ministry of Health, Quality Control Laboratories in Oman and UAE are highly qualified chemists. 

The personnel assigned to the operations of taking samples must be under the authority of the person responsible for quality control. The operations of withdrawing samples make special demands on the recruitment, selection, knowledge, motivation and training of the staff who must be trained and made aware of the importance of their role. They must be motivated and aware that sampling is a precision technique in the same way as analysis and that steps must thus be taken to do it meticulously. 

For a greenfield site the quality control, analytical laboratory and microbiological laboratory have to be fully proven before main plant commissioning takes place. The precommissioning should be done by the future laboratory staff, assisted where necessary by the commissioning team. In a foreign location this calls for early recruitment of staff and their training. 

Although according to the business plan the factory would require 88 full-time staff to manufacture at full capacity (24 for direct production, 4 for quality-control-related services, and 18 for management and administration), at the time of writing only 55 had been recruited, and a team of 8 Brazilian technical assistants based in Maputo were still providing key management and technical expertise for the factory s operations. Given the limited development of industrial capabilities in Mozambique,... 

Polysubstance abusers and controls are collected from research volunteers of each population recruited from the same area. This reduces the risk of stratification problems in each group of subjects. Postmortem brain subjects are obtained from Brain Bank for RNA/cDNA analysis, with careful evaluation for their quality that depend on postmortem interval (PMl), pH and 28S/18S, as well as their age, sex, ethnicity, cause of death, etc. 

A randomized controlled pilot study was carried out to examine the effects of adjunctive aromatherapy massage on mood, quality of life, and physical symptoms in patients with cancer attending a specialist unit (Wilcock et al., 2004). Patients were randomized to conventional day care alone or day care plus weekly aromatherapy massage using a standardized blend of oils for 4 weeks. At baseline and at weekly intervals, patients rated their mood, quality of life, and the intensity and bother of two symptoms most important to them. However, although 46 patients were recruited to the study. 

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