With local expertise ... Rehabilitation and maintenance of dozens of medical devices in the National Hospital of Hama

Hama-Sana

With local efforts and expertise, a technical team at the General Authority of the National Hospital of Hama was able to rehabilitate and maintain dozens of medical devices in the hospital, provide funds for the state treasury, and bypass the difficulty of securing, purchasing, and maintaining spare parts and equipment as a result of the economic blockade imposed on Syria.

In statements to a Sana correspondent between Shadi Mahmoud, head of the hospital’s medical devices workshop, the technical staff in the hospital’s engineering department carried out maintenance work for more than 35 monitors, 22 competitors, and a number of anesthesia devices, with care to perform periodic and preventive maintenance of medical equipment, especially savings, sensors, and accessories, which It ensures the continuity of its work in a systematic manner, pointing to the creation of a warehouse for the destruction of medical devices, with the aim of investing spare parts from coordinated medical devices in operating other devices that were out of work.

Technician Bilal Al-Ahdab, a member of the engineering team implementing the medical devices maintenance work, indicated that among the priorities of the team’s work is to rehabilitate the medical competitors and maintain their readiness and effectiveness, in addition to the team's maintenance and repair of medical equipment required for surgical operations such as anesthesia and others.

Engineer Abdel Karim Gergnazi, head of the engineering department at the hospital, pointed out that the current conditions that Syria is going through necessitated relying on local cadres and expertise that were able with simple initiatives to replace many of the necessary spare parts for imported foreign medical equipment by manufacturing alternative models locally and with the same performance and quality in the hands of technical expertise What is available in the hospital, whose owners have proven high efficiency and a sense of patriotism, has contributed to providing millions of Syrian pounds to the state.

Eng. Gerjnazi noted the unlimited support and encouragement that the technical team at the hospital receives from the Department of Medical Engineering at the Ministry of Health, which contributed to a comprehensive and qualitative maintenance campaign for the various medical equipment in the hospital.

Mohsen Shirdah, the worker in the hospital's engineering department, said: Our job was previously to follow up on minor faults of medical devices and detect them and to contact the suppliers or agents under maintenance contracts. However, under the current circumstances, there were no companies or agents left, which necessitated relying on our local expertise to rehabilitate Devices and keep them running.

For his part, Dr. Salim Khallouf, Director of the General Authority of the National Hospital of Hama, stated that the hospital's engineering office includes a group of engineers and maintenance technicians who are known for their competence and experience, which was demonstrated by their ability to maintain most medical equipment and return it to work again at a much lower material cost compared to its counterparts from importing from abroad .

Abdullah Al-Sheikh