The division includes the Quality Assurance, Training, Compliance and Certification departments, as well as the Audit department. These SOPs precisely describe the way in which blood must be collected, and how the blood products are produced, processed, analyzed, preserved and delivered to hospitals. Safety is the main concern of personnel in Medical Affairs . This department ensures that the eligibility criteria, with which all donors must comply, provide recipients with optimum protection during transfusions, and offers hospitals consulting services in transfusion medicine. This department is responsible for the Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
Vigilance is the key to safe blood products and derivatives.
Inquiries into transfused products, follow-up of transfusion reactions in recipients, recall of products in the event of contamination, and the search for donors if a problem is detected in a recipient are also responsibilities of this division. In the initial months following its creation, H MA-QU BEC implemented administrative procedures and systems indispensable to sound management. The Finance and Administration division applies rigorous financial control methods to achieve greater efficiency in financial monitoring and purchasing management. This division ensures that the laws and regulations applicable to H MA-QU BEC are respected at all times. Moreover, Legal Affairs is responsible for managing insurance contracts and representing H MA-QU BEC before certain administrative bodies.