The Physical Asset Management (PAM) ensures safe, reliable and quality medical equipment in the hospitals for quality health service delivery to patients. Corrective and preventative maintenance provides improved quality of care through better technology management by ensuring that machines are cleaned regularly, spare parts are changed if they show signs of failure that could lead …
Medical devices require accurate and complete inspection to ensure that those potentially harmful to patients and equipment users are not put in use. Biomedical engineers make sure that each medical device is thoroughly inspected according to manufacturer’s standards before use. Maki9ng sure all medical devices are safe, accurate, reliable and operating at the required level …
Biomedical Engineers under PAM conduct frequent training of medical equipment users. Due to an increase in number of patients seeking medical attention in hospitals because of Covid – 19 pandemic, most health facilities in Malawi experienced under-staffing. This prompted government to recruit a more staff to help improve service delivery. Both old and new recruits …
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Physical Assets Management also deals with risk assessment and management. In this, engineers check all departments of the hospital, looking for potential risks on medical equipment, electronic equipment, arrangement of all materials in wards and other hospital offices. This is to make sure that the hospitals are safe for patients, guardians as well as health …
Biomedical Engineers under Physical Assets Management (PAM) helped a lot in the establishment of field hospitals across the country one of which was Bingu National Stadium hospital. The team worked hand in hand with the Medical Doctors and Nurses within MOH to come up with a good COVID 19 facility within a short period of …
The Physical Asserts Management (PAM) department provides internship for students from Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST), Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) and other International Universities, who are studying Biomedical Engineering. PAM provide trainings for these students to ensure that the students are conversant with medical equipment as well as daily …
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PAM engineer’s work at the dialysis centre is to ensure that all systems are running properly, these systems include the water treatment system as well as the dialysis machine. In water treatment system, PAM staff are responsible for carrying out loop sterilisation, a scheduled activity where the loop supplying water to dialysis machines, is cleaned …
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