Dear Calil,
Thank you for your interesting contribution. It wasn’t me who suggested the
definition you quoted. Perhaps some INFRATECH experts on this matter can
comment.
Very best wishes,
Len Cornish
Dear All
This is a fair discussion and I would like to place a statement and to learn a bit more
with your comments.
The question is; “what is or how to classify a developing country” in healthcare terms,
as this is the theme of discussion.
Take for example countries like Brazil, Argentina, Chile and so on (sorry about
mentioning only [...]
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Dear Colleagues,
Please allow me to do some non-appointed/unofficial moderation of this
discussion on developing countries. I shall respond to the last messages
posters
Ronald, your participation is greatly appreciated in this discussion since
you have raised many insightful issues that can encourage this Forum to
discuss. I hope that you will continue to contribute.
Peter H: Ronald mentioned that [...]
Dear Colleagues:
We greatly appreciate this discussion and I have followed closely. The best discussion
in this group in a long time! Thank you for vision and insights- very much appreciated
by us.
One important extra variable to be discussed (as a potentially contributive factor) is
the role of international organizations in this process. To my knowledge, World [...]
Dear Ismael
I was just typing some questions and you just jump ahead with the answers
about working with government hospitals or government organizations.
My experience is that it does not work, mainly due to politics, or shall I
say, developing countries polices and politics.
Your experience is what we did here with Clinical Engineering and it is
working.
Around 1993, Hospitals [...]
Greetings Michael and others following the discussion on inoperative medical devices in developing countries.
I will join the discussion by providing information on the basic medical equipment training (MET) program International Aid began in 1998 after reading material similar to and perhaps including your articles from 1994 and 1995. Our MET program began with the focus [...]
Attached articles in Spanish and in English, please discuss. The terms
medical equipment and medical devices are used interchangeably
Dear All,
May I revive the discussion on developing countries? Approximately 2/3 of
the world’s population live in developing countries; so proper functioning
of medical equipment/ devices has great impact on global healthcare. Thus,
I believe [...]
Hullo All
I have followed the exchanges which began with Calil’s message of May 19
with the query about the “50%”.
The exchange is probably not finished but at this point I suggest, as
others have done, that the actual figure is not really important. The
major importance of Calil’s message is in the 3 quoted lines: “Up to [...]
Dear Wang
The repetition of your work is not my intention.
I already presented a paper about the surplus of High-tech equipment in
Brazil and the over costs of their maintenance
The presentation called the attention of radio and TV in Brazil. I gave
interviews and so on. One consultant from the Ministry of Health ask me were
I obtained the [...]
Dear Jonathan and Wang
I believe you raise a very good point about the World Bank
In 1995 we had a project financed by the World Bank and one of the items was to acquire Medical Equipment.
The Ministry of Health invited Clinical Engineers among other people to set up the requirements for a project to be presented [...]
Dear Calil:
You are certainly correct that the problem is not limited to Brazil. At ECRI Institute, we reviewed over 30 World Bank projects-none of them were from Brazil. You are also correct that the World Bank requires the local governments to demonstrate that they have assigned the funds for operating expenses before receiving [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Dear All,
In addition to my previous message regarding the status of equipment in
Latin America and the Caribbean countries, the outcome of the studies
were published in:
PAHO Scientific Publication #524 “Health Condition in the Americas”
Volume I, 1990, pages 268-271
PAHO Scientific Publication # 549 “Health Conditions in the Americas”
Volume 1, 1994, page 339 341
PAHO Scientific Publication # 569 [...]
Dear colleagues,
I totally agree with Andre and really appreciate the approach mentioned by
Andrei.
Advocacy is still very weak in HTM/PAM related projects. When you dig deep
enough you sometimes find products and recommendations, or even formulated
policies with good approaches or at least starting points, which just
haven’t been introduced or realised. We even made the experience sometimes
that donors [...]
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