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Welcome to State Agency of Medical Devices |
State Agency of Medical Devices The Biomedical Engineering Centre (BENC) is an existing national workshop for maintenance of medical devices. It supports health care institutions in Albania with maintenance of medical devices. When the local hospital clinical engineering unit (CEU) need experts to repair a medical device or lacks a CEU, it is sent to BENC in Tirana for repair or a BENC employee is asked to visit the institution for repair. Up till today most of the technical staff employed at hospitals are not trained in clinical engineering and need support from BENC. Medical devices of many brands are entering Albania in various ways. New devices may be found underutilized or inappropriately used due to factors such as lack of consumables, lack of maintenance and insufficient competence of users. To improve utilization of medical devices additional competence is needed. Such competence is organized in the State Agency of Medical Devices (SAMD). The existing BENC will be transformed into the State Agency of Medical Devices in order to provide the highest level of competence in clinical engineering in support of modern medical technology of the Albanian Health Care system. State Agency of Medical Devices (SAMD), represents a high level of clinical engineering competence that shall be able to support Albanian health care with a proper technology infrastructure for modern medical devices. SAMD and CEU’s will work in close cooperation with the existing BENC
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