Maintenance and Repair of Medical Electronic Equipment—Suggested Schemes for Organization

Abstract

Modern health care delivery depends in an ever-increasing manner upon the interdisciplinary amalgam of engineering and medicine. In keeping with the world trend, hospitals in India are also going in for sophisticated medical electronic equipment which have become invaluable to the physicians be it in diagnosis or in therapy. So much so, medical electronics is one of the forces that has transformed the conventional medical practice to what it is today.

Medical Electronic Equipment have brought in their wake, the important questions related to maintenance and repair of these. Maintenance and repair forms, the life-blood link from the time an equipment is bought to its complete life-time utilization. Some schemes are suggested here as to how maintenance of medical electronic equipment could be best organized in the country.