Empowering Society for Quality in all Walks of Life

Vision

To provide adequate training to all the medical lab personnel on all issues pertains to QMS and the internal audit as per the APLAC/ILAC/AB requirement

Mission

  • To Plan and Develop the course contact to cover the both QMS as per ISO 15189:2022
  • To develop the course contact for the Internal Auditors trained as per the ISO 17019 Internal Auditor requirements.
  • To design the course to implement both ISO 15189 and the internal auditor requirement.
  • To identify the NABL accredited laboratory and get the consent for more audit.
  • To develop exercises and case studies and assignment as per the requirement.
  • To develop the evaluation during the course, post training and further follow following up.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the candidates through the examination system.

About Us

To meet the growing needs and expectations of diagnostic laboratories, Foundation for Quality (India) a nonprofit organization was set up in March 2013. Since then it has been organizing various types of certificate programmes for medical laboratory professionals like – Pathology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and technologists, Molecular diagnostics, Imaging (Radiology), and other disciplines. They are from laboratories that have accreditation by NABL. FQI has trained more than 25000 laboratory professionals on how to conduct audits of medical laboratories and on the development of quality management systems, as per the ISO International Standard- “ISO 15189: 2012 & 2022 – Medical laboratories-requirements of quality and competence”.

 

These programmes are conducted by a team of well-experienced, qualified, trained and able assessors of NABL (NATIONAL ACCREDITATION BOARD FOR TESTING AND CALIBRATION LABORATORIES). FQI has also been organizing training programmes in countries such as Iraq, Nepal, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Maldives and Bangla Desh and we have trained more than 3500 professionals outside the country. . Training will be imparted on personnel management, organization and management responsibility, quality management system, document control, service agreements, external services and supplies, resolution of complaints, control of non-conformities, corrective action, preventive action, continual improvement, control of records, audit, ensuring the quality of examination results and laboratory information system. The participants will also be trained on how to obtain NABL accreditation.

FQI Activities

1. Training Laboratory Management system requirement as per ISO 15189: 2022. both 2-day Transition certification and 4-day International Lead Auditors certificate training program. (We have a page for this)
2. Product endorsement for the quality (we have a page for this)
3. Hand holding and training for International accreditation of Medical Laboratories as per ISO 15189 and Hospitals for ILAC Certification (Like NABL, NABH, QCI, etc.)
4. Continuous Medical Examination programs by Expert speakers across the world (We have a page for this)
5. Certification program in association with DNA Life for the farmers who are into Natural and Organic Farming (New page to be created with a sample certificate)
6. Publication of Journals regarding Medical Laboratories
7. Phlebotomy training in association with BD.

Programmes

Apart from certification programmes, FQI Under the guidance the leader ship of Dr. Venkatesh
Thuppil, Lead man of India, is also into accreditation of Gram Panchayat and Other Municipal Bodies. FQI is also into Accreditation of Homestays in India. And will be launching Playground Accreditation program very shortly.
FQI has conducted programs in reputed institutions in India like:

  • AIIMS Delhi,
  • AIIMS at Jodhpur,
  • BMC Chitradurga
  • Narayana Medical college and hospital, AP
  • Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad
  • Kamneni Medical College,
  • Mysore Medical College,
  • National Centre for Disease Control, New Delhi, etc

and overseas FQI undertook the task during the war period in Iraq in which the Lead Man of India Dr Thuppil Venkatesh & chief faculty of FQI, Professor P D Sawant provided the technical support to the Medical laboratories in Iraq. This is for the first time in the history of an Indian organization, FQI providing such exemplary service to the humanity in the field of medical services.

Founder Trustees

Dr. Venkatesh Thuppil

SECRETARY & DIRECTOR, FQI

Dr. Giridhar Gyani

MEMBER, FQI

Prof. N Sashidhar

MEMBER, FQI

Shri Bipin Ram Agarwal

MEMBER, FQI

Shri Satish Jain

MEMBER, FQI

Trustees

Dr. C.V. Anand

MEMBER, FQI

Dr. Jayaram N Iyengar

MEMBER, FQI

Dr.Raghunath

MEMBER, FQI

Dr. S.Muralidharan

MEMBER, FQI

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