GENERAL ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE
Mr. Ken Gorman, HNC (Electrl & Electronic Engg), Principal Engineer
Mr. Phaneendra Rao, MTech (Electrl), MBA, Electrical Engineer
Mr. Rajan Sreeram, Mechanical Engineer
Mr. Motilal, Airconditioning Engineer
Mr. Shivraj Hande, Civil Engineer
The Department of Engineering is responsible for the engineering and building maintenance across the complete hospital site and accommodation campus. Other responsibilities include design and implementation of new and refurbishment work approved for various clinical and service areas in the Hospital. Specialized maintenance works, outside the internal capabilities, whether for technical or logistical reasons, are contracted out to specialty companies. The servicing of most sophisticated medical equipment is also contracted out.
A computerized on-line work request system is in force, by which users raise repair requests whenever equipment and facilities are found defective during use or when faults are noticed during periodical inspections by supervisors of various areas. As an indicator of the workload involved, annually, the approximate number of work requests processed by the Engineering Department are: air-conditioning - 4800, building - 500, carpentry - 2900, electrical - 6000, electronic - 1761, biomedical - 3000, painting - 350, plumbing - 3000.
The department also has a computerized planned preventive maintenance system by which regular cleaning, checking, servicing and re-calibration of equipment are carried out.
THE BIOMEDICAL SECTION
Eng. Saif Nasser Al Mawali, Head of Biomedical Section
Mr. M.C. Nagarajan, Biomedical engineer and Deputy Head of Section
Mr. Hamed Saleh Al Rashdy, Biomedical Engineer
Mr. M.R. Ranganath, Biomedical Engineer
Mr. Murtaza Muhammad Jaffer, Biomedical Engineer
In addition to the above cited Ministry of Health employees, the Department has a contracted 8 Biomedical technicians. Further, many major items of equipment are contracted to the suppliers for preventive and breakdown maintenance.
The Biomedical Engineering Section has the primary responsibility for maintenance of around 8000 items of biomedical equipment at the Royal Hospital. It functions under the following 5 sub-sections, each of which is overseen by a MoH employed biomedical engineer:
- Breakdown maintenance
- Periodic preventive maintenance
- New equipment receiving and commissioning
- Maintenance contracts
- Tender and specifications.
In addition to biomedical equipment maintenance, the Section is also actively involved in:
- Finalizing tenders related to purchase of new items of equipment
- Selection of spare parts
- Replacement of condemned equipment
- Finalizing indents and demands for spare parts
- Checking and approving of spare parts and medical accessories received in engineering stores from suppliers.
The selection of new equipment for the hospital is done in coordination with the concerned clinical departments and end-users after arranging meetings with them and providing technical suggestions where feasible.
The Head of Section, from time to time, is also involved in evaluating candidates sent for training from various sources.
Keeping in view the importance of patient care, one biomedical technician is posted on a shift system in the department 24 hours round the clock, including on weekends and public holidays, for providing biomedical equipment support to the end-user departments.
The Biomedical Section is very busy, with a professional team of support staff, handling on a monthly average close to 450 breakdown work requests, 300 preventive maintenance requests, in addition to commissioning of new equipment received on a regular basis.
