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Medical
Electronics and Electromechanical Equipments have become
indispensable nowadays for the better service of Hospitals and
most importantly, for the survival of patients. The service
quality of Hospitals is often judged according to the state of
the equipments they have at their disposal, which is the key
factor for the better treatment of the patients. Routine
preventive maintenance to ensure proper working condition so as
to serve their purpose is highly essential. The need for special
skills in repairing and maintenance of these equipments has been
realized as the Hospital Technicians normally do not have the
expertise as many cases required special technical skill for
rectification. A large number of the Hospitals in te country are
equipped with high-tech medical equipments but lack of
trained manpower results in long down time and early
classification of equipments as defunct . Consequently, the
quantity of equipments the Hospitals need to replenish
affects the society directly, since it limits the service which
the Hospitals can render to the patients. Hence a large
number of quality trained Medical Electronics
professionals is required for preventive and maintenance work
needed to maintain hi-tech medical equipments in hospitals to
ensure good health care in the country. Since the
hospitals in remote areas of India, the necessity of setting up
of Medical Electronics Laboratory has been felt imperative due
to the high demand of the Hospitals facing continuous break down
of medical equipments and non-availability of adequate trained
professionals in the vicinity. Till date the hospitals
depend on repair manpower from far off, which usually takes long
time for rectification. The long break down time of life
saving medical equipments is adversely affecting the quality
delivery mechanism of Medical care in the region.
To support
quality delivery of training as well as for undertaking medical
equipments maintenance services, it is imperative to establish a
quality laboratory facility to train the existing technicians in
upgrading their skills as well as generate fresh manpower in the
field of Medical Engineering Services. Hence, there is an
urgent need to establish a state-of-art laboratory facility to
provide hands on exposure for professionals to undertake
Maintenance and Design & Development services.
DOEACC
Centre,
Aizawl
has undertaken training of technicians for Repair &
Maintenance of Medical Equipments for hospitals in NE Region(
funded by DoNER ). DOEACC Centre
Jammu and Srinagar
undertakes Hospital maintenance Projects in the region.
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