The GE Foundation is collaborating with two organizations to bring a biomedical-equipment technician (BMET) training program to Nigeria.
GE is partnering with the Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory at Duke University and Engineering World Health to provide a three-year, $1.5 million grant to address the need for locally qualified medical technicians to repair and service biomedical equipment.
The grant program, which includes the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria, will be established at the Federal School of Biomedical Engineering Technology at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
The BMET project first launched in 2009 in Rwanda, with 38 technicians graduating in 2012 and another 67 currently enrolled in the program. Since then, projects were set up in Honduras, Ghana, and Cambodia, training approximately 200 technicians and establishing nearly 10 centers of excellence.
