Flokefama

A leading medical equipment solutions company, Flokefama, together with its international partner, Mindray, have held a week-long training conference for West African hospital engineers.

The conference which started on Monday, August 12, is aimed at ensur­ing quality after sales service of all In Vitro diagnostic equipment at the various hospitals.

It would also aid Ghanaian bio­medical engineers to ensure that Flokefama and Mindray equipment installations in facilities like the Univer­sity of Ghana Medical Centre, The Trust Hos­pital and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, among others were catered for.

In his opening ad­dress, the Chief Exec­utive Officer (CEO) of Flokefama, Mr Emmanuel Kwabena Kenney, said the training of these technicians who operate such equipment was crucial to saving lives and ensuring standard­isation.

For this reason he said, any time there were challenges they had to fly in engineers from Kenya, Ethiopia, China and the United States of Ameri­ca to fix them.

“What we have done is to bridge the gap. We have brought these engineers to train our local engineers. What we have is the Flokefama/Mindray West African Engineers training with par­ticipants from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and Cote d’Ivoire among others. We are hosting them at our IBD Training Centre at Kwashieman/Santa Maria,” he said.

Mr Kenney said that locally, engi­neers from these hospitals would be trained “so that when these equip­ment have a challenges, or the stan­dardisation are not being met, or it’s producing false results they will know what to do.”

On maintenance culture, he said, managing and taking care of various equipment was the most important, and therefore called on leadership of the various hospitals to prioritise it.

He further revealed that the train­ing would be rolled out across the major regions and against this back­drop, urged hospitals, both public and private to get in touch and take advantage.

Mr Kenney disclosed that at the end of the training, certificates would be awarded by Flokefama and Mindray.

He was optimistic that training from the crack team from Ethiopia, Kenya and China will go a long way to fur­ther impact the local technicians.

Some of the participants expressed their appreciation for the training and recommended that other facilities take advantage of the opportunity to train their engineers.

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme