Despite efforts by the Ministry of Health in ensuring health care, Rwanda’s hospitals are facing the problem of good management of medical equipments due to the gap between Bio-medical engineering Technicians (BMET) and hospital Administrators.
On September21st, 2012, Theogene Namahungu the Acting Head of Medical Maintenance Centre (MMC) one of the divisions of Rwanda Bio-Medical Centre, revealed that insufficiency of Bio-Medical Engineers hinder progress in health sector.
He was concluding a workshop on Health Technology Management held in Eastern province.
“Many hospitals have medical equipments that are not in good condition and there is no closer collaboration between hospital technicians and the heads of hospitals in ensuring proper functionality of medical equipments”, said Namahungu.
However, Lambert Ntakirutimana, Head of Maintenance service in Ngarama Hospital located in Gatsibo district, Eastern Province has said that Hospital Administrators do not normally understand job of technicians in hospitals adding that they work in isolation yet they have technical skills to impact on functionality of medical equipment to enable health care of patients.
Ntakirutimana added that the training on Health Technology Management with hospital Administrators will help technicians and hospital administrators to understand the importance of managing medical equipment by working as a team and will enable maximum use of health equipment and timely deliverance of health services.
The Belgium Development Agency (BTC) through Institutional Support Program to the Conception and Implementation of a Strategic Health Development Plan for Kigali City (PAPSDSK) managed the partial fund
and the preparations of the training on Health Technology Management in collaboration with Rwanda Bio-Medical Centre, Engineering World Health ,US NGO and with GIZ, the German Development Agency to make sure that both hospital technicians and hospital administrators manage well medical equipment and prioritise the needs of hospitals and clinical services as standard of health care.
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