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 to poor performance of equipment and equipment are checked whether they need replacement or not.
Figure on the left shows corrective maintenance of a suction machine while on the right shows that of an infusion pump