Assessment of medical engineering workshops in Khartoum state’s hospitals

Abstract

To get the most out of medical equipment we need to actively manage them, ensuring that they are used efficiently and optimally, and this will lead to improvements in the quality and quantity of healthcare delivered, without an increase in costs. So, we are in need for applying an ideal design of clinical workshops depending on hospitals’ capacity. The project aims to assess the status quo of clinical engineering workshops in Khartoum state’s hospitals in terms of the constructions and their performance and to how much they match the standard workshops. Firstly, we design a controlled structured visual inspection sheet. Then we delivered this sheet to clinical engineers at hospitals under study. Secondly, we measured the dimensions of current workshops, counted the functional items inside the workshops and draw them using ArchiCAD to compare between the actual workshop and the ideal one; thus to find the gap between them. The results that obtained reflect the actual status of medical workshops in Khartoum state for the hospitals under the study. In all hospitals under the study the workshops are not typical workshops for clinical engineering department depending on operating capacity of these hospitals in beds. Furthermore there is 20 percent of these hospitals have no workshops at all and 70 percent of existing workshops lack of many requirements of Ideal workshops in terms of typical dimensions, internal divisions, contents and not taking into account the comfortable area of work within the workshop without overlapping of workers during the performance of their duties. Only twenty two of thirty samples have workshops, so we have a result of these twenty two samples.