Ongoing Projects

• Ghana Medical Help Initiative in Northern Ghana

  • A few clinical engineering members from CMBES have been supporting Ghana Medical Help’s (a Canadian registered charity) initiative in northern Ghana since 2014 to develop their clinical engineering program.  This is being accomplished with webinar training, annual conference facilitation and providing an open-source functional CMMS.  The team is also creating an open-source, web-based Medical Equipment Management System (MEMS).  If you’re a java script programmer or would like to help with CMMS specification development, please contact us.

• CHEO Hemodialysis Donation to Kumasi, Ghana

  • In 2024, two BMETs from CHEO, were approved for the CMBES travel grant for a mission trip to Ghana. The project was to install 20 donated Fresenius dialysis machines (surplus from Ontario) at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana. Their role was to support local technologists trained by Fresenius South Africa in maintenance and troubleshooting. The aim of this project was to enhance dialysis care delivery and skill levels at the hospital by preventing equipment wastage and to promote global citizenship by supporting sustainability and recycling efforts in the clinical engineering community.

    Unfortunately, the project in Ghana did not proceed. However, an alternative option arose with CSI Quebec and the donation has gone through them to Conakry (Guinea) in Africa. We are thankful to all the participants who have made this donation possible and will continue to follow up on this donation with CSI Quebec.

• Toronto Clinical Engineer support of health technology management in Ethiopia

  • The first onsite exploration and evaluation of the biomedical engineering (BME) department at the Tukur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was performed by Adeel Alam and Rutvik Patel under the auspices of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC). During the visit, both individuals observed various aspects of the TASH-BME department workflow, and discussed scheduled/unscheduled maintenance processes, technical competencies, resource availability, capital equipment purchase processes, and departmental organizational structure with the BME leadership. The Canadian team is developing a set of recommendations to address some of the departmental challenges and a potential training program for the Ethiopian Biomed professionals

• Niagara Clinical Engineer support of health technology management in Uganda
• Tools for Techs Project