Imported Medical Equipment Inspection and Coordination Program

Abstract

Healthcare especially diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation developed due to the development of medical equipment technology. Medical devices become a part doesn’t divide of medicine practice but consider the required condition for medical service quality, effectiveness and safety. Therefore every hospital whether it's large or small contains number of medical devices which without exception produced outside Sudan, this situation create a lot of problems in having the good of these devices and way of keeping it work safely, continuity and efficiency. This project aim to design software program coordinates between regulation bodies that are responsible of importation and inspection of medical devices to ensure their safety and high quality, also replace paper system with electronic system to facilitate and accelerate the procedures. To achieve the objectives of this research several visits and interviews were done to conclude the needed data through questionnaire analyzed by statistical program (SPSS). Through the study, electronic link program between regulation bodies done (National Medicine and Poison Board, Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization and Sudan Atomic Energy Commission) to facilitate and accelerate the procedures of importation and clearance, also to ensure the safety, quality and effectiveness of the imported medical devices. Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization and Sudan National Medicines & Poisons Board offered to experiment the program in their institutes so that if it achieve the hoped for goals they will implement it