A medical equipment solutions company, Flokefama together with its international partner, Mindray, have trained about 50 biomedical engineers   from West African countries.

 The training was aimed at ensuring quality after sales service of  In Vitro Diagnostic equipment at various hospitals.

It also aided Ghanaian biomedical engineers to ensure that Flokefama and Mindray equipment installations in facilities like University of Ghana Medical Centre, The Trust Hospital and Korle-Bu among others were properly catered for.

Saving lives 

In his opening address, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Flokefama, Emmanuel Kwabena Kenney, said the training of the engineers who operated the  equipment was crucial to saving lives and ensuring standardisation.

He said hitherto , any time there were challenges with the equipments, they had to fly in engineers from Kenya, Ethiopia, China and the United States of America fix them.

“What we have done is bridging the gap, we have brought these engineers to train our local engineers. What we have is the Flokefama /Mindray West African Engineers training with participants from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and Cote D’Ivoire among others. We are hosting them at our IBD Training Centre at Kwashieman/Santa Maria,” he said.

Mr  Kenney added that locally, engineers from these hospitals would be trained “so that when these equipment have a challenge, or the standardisation are not being met, or it's producing false results they will know what to do.”

On maintenance culture, he said, managing and taking care of various equipment was very important and therefore called on leadership of various hospitals to prioritise it.

He further revealed that the training would be rolled out across the major regions and against this backdrop, urged hospitals both government and private to get in touch and take advantage.