• Triasha@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The hospitals underpaid maintenance team vrs a licensed tech from the manufacturer is a false dichotomy. The choice could easily be the hospital’s underpaid maintenance team or no repairs at all.

    Realistically, they don’t put grandma on the vent because they won’t buy or keep a device they can’t afford to repair.

    And why would the company spend more time/effort on their repair staff than the hospital? The company license is no guarantee they aren’t minimum wage nobodies.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Thing is, medical equipment suppliers should be held to higher standards than they are currently. If you’re providing medical equipment to be used in public healthcare: you should be responsible for maintaining and repairing it imo.

      There should be a minimum requirement for repair/maintenance/warranty provided by the manufacturer.

      Hospitals don’t invest in the ability to perform such repairs largely because of the liability involved, ontop of often being a poorly funded/staffed public service.

      The company license is no guarantee they aren’t minimum wage nobodies.

      No, but then the manufacturer is responsible for the quality of repair/maintenance performed by its staff.

      If something goes wrong with the equipment; it’s on the equipment manufacturer instead of the hospital using it.

      With a mandate on repair/maintenance; they’d be forced to provide quality service to survive.