This is the first edition of the National Medical Equipment Guidelines produced by the MoH, coordinated by NACME and HID. These guidelines cover the broad spectrum of the equipment lifecycle including acquisition of equipment through Donation, safety of equipment, users, and patients, decommissioning and disposal of equipment. Emphasis has been placed on ensuring that acquisition of equipment is based on planning and needs assessment that establishes; need, availability of human resource, infrastructure and utilities to ensure full utilization of equipment.
In this document, medical providers and practices are generally described as traditional, complementary/alternative, or allopathic. “Provider” and “practitioner” are used interchangeably. In a few cases, particularly in the European section, the cumbersome term “non-allopathic physician” is used to refer to medical practitioners who are either not allopathic practitioners or who are allopathic providers but not physicians.
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