Equipment is a critical component of public health sector. The improper and poor system of maintenance and repair of medical equipment may make them non-functional in the long run which in turn directly affects the patient care and treatment. The equipment is a fundamental part of the present evidence-based medicine and has become a necessity in almost all its activities whether diagnostic, therapeutic and supportive in nature.
These include critical equipment like operation theater set-ups, mammography machines, MRI and CT scanners, heart-lung machines, and incubators. Moreover, due to rapid technological progress, the equipment has become not only more complex but also require regular specialized maintenance and repair, which is very expensive. In the present-day health care system, government or private hospitals (urban as well as rural) are playing a vital role in providing primary…
