Saturday, July 8, 2017

Hospitals jostle for equipment calibration, says TBS official

DAILY NEWS Reporter
THERE has been increased need for national, referral and regional hospitals to test their medical equipment for calibration as they seek to be accredited by the Southern Africa Development Community Accreditation Services (SADCAS).

Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) Acting Head of Metrology Laboratory, Mr Joseph Kadenge said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the influx has been necessitated by the demand that the hospitals need to be accredited and one of the items is calibration.
He said that some of the equipment that has been sent to the laboratory for calibration includes syringes, thermometers, sample agent fridges, incubators, sterilizers, weight in measures, auto-clave, and micropipettes among others.
“As TBS we usually conduct calibration tests for medical equipment and we are accredited to do so. Previously, we were getting very few, but of late, many hospitals come to our laboratory to test their equipment for proper calibration,” he said.
He added that the influx is a good sign that the hospitals understand the need to test their medical equipment so that their services will not be questionable.
“It is for the good of the patient as well, since, if the equipment does not bear the stated calibration, that is, when you feel sick you go for checkup, and if the samples are placed in wrongly calibrated equipment, then chances are, the results will not be proper, thus at the end of the day, you won’t get the required treatment,” he said

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