Dear Jennifer and the Infratech group,
Thank you Jennifer for sharing the 2010 Action Areas of the
Clinton Global Initiative. I am excited to support CGI activities in HTM. Enhancing
Access to Modern Technology and it’s subtopic Disseminating Medical
Technology to the Developing World are of course relevant to the group and
quite timely related [...]
Dear all,
The importance and value of promoting HTM cannot be overestimated, and efforts to this effect by all concerned should be praised. And the role of the INTRATECH discussion group, with all its technical limitations, as an important networking mechanism in our view proved so far to be very useful.
Although strictly speaking INFRATECH by design is [...]
Dear Andre Mboule
Sorry by the deleyied answer but I was in and out my office and miss some
messages from Infratech and other people.
It will be a pleasure to have you and the professionals you recommend to
help us in this project.
The IFMBE has several WOrking Groups and one of them, which I am the
chairman for the [...]
Dear All
Warm greetings from a cold and miserable Cape Town. I have been
watching your interesting discussions from the sidelines with great
interest but was not able to respond due to heavy project commitments
which are now out of the way.
The initiatives that have been mentioned are very exciting – well done
to Calil, Andre, Michael and others. In [...]
Dear All,
Thank you for a week of great discussions. It seems appropriate for me (as
Non-Official Moderator!) at this point to make an observation from the
discussions.
The concept of “appropriateness” is indeed powerful and I think it applies
to practically all domains of human endeavour; only that different words are
used to express the same concept.
Björne’s [...]
Ismael, thank you for participating.
It would be good to hear comments from other International Organizations.
For example: Andrei I; Björn F (WHO), Antonio H (PAHO), Billy T
(International Aid), Jonathan G (ECRI), Len C (Global Healthcare Projects),
Ronald B (SANIPLAN GmbH) and others.
We look forward to your valuable comments.
Michael Cheng
Thanks Billy.
Would anyone else like to discuss their views on such a
strategy? As a brainstorming exercise, we would like to hear other strategy
options so that the most appropriate one can emerge.
The goal is find the most efficient strategy to help building capacities in
developing countries to maintain medical equipment. Please express your
view.
Michael [...]
I hope you (and others) are not trying to repeat similar studies. Many
of those reports ended up sitting in the offices of bureaucrats and
nothing got done for several years, waiting for funding or decisions
from higher authorities. Success stories are more likely to derive from
action plans that address the root causes at various levels, [...]
Binseng is making a great point in mentioning the World Bank. ECRI Institute has reviewed several World Bank projects in developing countries and I personally feel that the World Bank has the potential to be a significant driving force-either towards the problem or towards the solution. My experience is that the documents that [...]
I believe that any efforts in advancing HTM in developing countries requires long term dedication lead by an expert concentrated in a manageable geographical area.
Most of the organizations involved in this area internationally, tend to be spread too thin among many projects and countries. A collection of short term workshops and quickly written recommendations [...]
Dear All,
Thank everyone for the contributions on this decades old problem. Following
Andrei’s call for continued discussions, I would like to share my thoughts
on the messages of the last two emails of Binseng and Ronald. It seems to
me that Ronald’s insightful concluding statement is a root-cause that we
must address no matter what statics result [...]
