The Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC / Fiocruz) is a unit of Fiocruz that produces know-how, products and services in the biomedical area, to meet the health needs of the population. Through its Reference Laboratories, it operates in highly complex diagnostics, development of studies, training at local, state and federal levels and for international organizations, as well as technical advice to national management by means of control programs. By means of a project from its own unit, Fiotec supports the improvement of the management of some of the institute's laboratories.

The IOC is recognized by the Ministry of Health as a reference unit for dealing with the most injuries and diseases of which Fiocruz is in charge before the Health Surveillance Secretary. By 2013, it had 29 reference centers: 24 national centers and 5 regional centers. Some of them are reference centers for cholera, dengue, leprosy, yellow fever, among others.

Most of these services are aimed at national institutions, of which about 90% belong to the public sector. The challenge faced by any management ahead of the component of these laboratories is to give sustainability and extend a traditional level of excellence of activities, thus meeting different demands with the required solvability.

Therefore, the project was created to contribute to the improvement of this management, supporting consulting / advisory techniques to the Health Ministry, State and Municipal Health Departments; conducting professional training in the health surveillance area; and ensuring resources for the purchase of inputs for the laboratory diagnosis within the agreed period, the samples of human cases, animals and environmental interests of public health.

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Created in 1900 as a pioneering initiative in Brazil, the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC / Fiocruz), throughout its 115 years of existence, has been operating in the areas of research, technological development and innovation and provision of reference services for diagnosis of infectious and genetic diseases and vector control, supported by the action of internal committees that ensure the biosafety , quality and environmental management standards.

The Institute also maintains scientific collections of national and international importance, and training engineers and scientists through professional education and graduate.
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