Effect of deploying biomedical equipment technician on the functionality of medical equipment in the government hospitals of rural Nepal

• Main Authors: Rita Thapa (Author), Alison Yih (Author), Ashish Chauhan (Author), Salomi Poudel (Author), Sagar Singh (Author), Suresh Shrestha (Author), Suresh Tamang (Author), Rishav Shrestha (Author), Ruma Rajbhandari (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Medical equipment plays a crucial role in the provision of quality healthcare services, despite this more than 50% of equipment in developing countries are non-functioning due to a lack of appropriate human resources to maintain. To address this problem some government hospitals...