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    "id": 1492464,
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    "content": "(6) The Director of the National Quality Control Laboratory shall— (a) oversee and coordinate all operations and administration of the National Quality Control Laboratory and provide technical guidance on quality control; (b) ensure timely quality control testing of all samples in conformity with national and international standards; (c) co-ordinate and supervise the activities of the National Quality Control Laboratory including staff; (d) collaborate with other laboratories, regulatory and law enforcement agencies to ensure quality in health products and technologies; (e) handle appeals on test results; (f) where the laboratory lacks capacity, subcontract laboratory testing services; (g) advice the Authority on matters of testing and quality control over health products and technologies; and (h) perform any other duties assigned by the Authority from time to time. (7) The funds to be used for the management of the National Quality Control Laboratory shall consist of all monies received or recovered under this Part and a portion of the monies appropriated by the National Assembly to the Authority. (8) Subject to subsection (7), the monies generated by the National Quality Control Laboratory in the course of the performance of its functions under this section shall be solely expended on the Laboratory. Clause 60(1) of the Bill establishes the National Quality Control Laboratory of the Authority and its functions. Clause 60(6) of the Bill gives the functions of the Director of the National Quality Control Laboratory. The National Quality Control Laboratory will be headed by a Director appointed by the Authority. It will be a regulatory laboratory of the Authority. It is a recommendation of WHO so that the country can achieve maturity level 3. To ring-fence money generated from the laboratory, they shall be solely expended there. The Authority ought to give a portion of the money appropriated to it by Parliament to the laboratory. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman."
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