Thursday Island Hospital

-10.58386 - 142.21955

No

2 weeks

Thursday Island is the administrative and commercial centre of the Torres Strait Island region. The island has an area of about 3.5km2. At the 2016 census; Thursday Island had a population of 2900.

Thursday Island Hospital is the referral hospital for seventeen Primary Health Care Centres in the Torres Strait Islands. These are grouped in island clusters as follows:
-Top western cluster: Boigu Island; Dauan Island; Saibai Island
-Near western cluster: Badu Island; Mabuiag Island; Kubin & St Pauls (Moa Island)
-Eastern cluster: Erub (Darnley Island); Mer (Murray Island); Ugar (Stephen Island)
-Central cluster: Iama (Yam Island); Masig (Yorke Island); Poruma (Coconut Island); Warraber (Sue Island)
-Inner cluster: Hammond Island; Thursday Island; Ngurupai (Horn Island)
Distance to- Cairns Base Hospital - Flight 798kms

- HREC Committee Name: Townsville HREC
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes

- Handling Investigational Product: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes

- Required Licenses or Registrations: Yes
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? Yes

- Investigational Product: Extemporaneous Preparation
- Centrifuge: yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: No

- Refrigerator (2 to 8 Degrees C): Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): No
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes