Improving the quality of medical equipment projects for health centres in developing countries

17/04/2014

A lot of medical equipment in health centres in developing countries no longer works. A large proportion of this equipment is given, often for free, by international aid organisations. In order to try to resolve this very problematic situation, the association Humatem specializes in supporting actors involved in medical equipment projects. The Equip’aid symposium, organized by Humatem in partnership with HOPE, with support from the WHO, showed the need to improve aid in this domain. Concrete solutions were discussed, such as increasing the responsibility of organizations, improving the technical quality of the equipment which is transferred and strengthening biomedical human resources.