‘‘Practices and factors affecting on-site medical equipment maintenance at Wau Teaching Hospital, South Sudan’’
The findings showed that medical equipment maintenance practice was a weekly practice; factors influencing medical equipment maintenance practice and the root causes of medical equipment maintenance failure were identified as influential factors. Corrective maintenance and outsourcing were the main maintenance practices observed, along with a lack of biomedical personnel, inadequate information aboutdevices, a lack of periodical inspection and prevention, design and implementation, and inappropriate medical equipment.
Authors
- Mulatedzi Makhado
- Shiferaw Mitiku Tebeka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5130-6435)
- Manassé Nimpagaritse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0760-4048)
- Shital Mahindra Maru (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1292-8549)
- Natale Massimino Ucin
Institutions
- University of Nairobi (KE)
- University of Rwanda (RW)
- Ministère de la Santé Publique (BI)
- South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (ZA)
- Rwanda Biomedical Center (RW)
- Addis Ababa University (ET)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2024-11-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20601-x
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.83
Funders
- University of Rwanda
- Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
- KfW Entwicklungsbank