MEDICAL EQUIPMENTS AND ITS USES IN VARIOUS HOSPITALS AND CLINICS IN DHAKA BANGLADESH

Munima Haque

Abstract: Biomedical imaging equipments like X-ray, CT (Computed Tomography), MRI (Magnetic Resonance imaging), Endoscopy, ECG (Electrocardiogram), EEG (Electroencephalography) and many other imaging instruments are being used in our country every day for medical diagnosis purposes. In this research various public and private hospitals/clinics in Dhaka city were investigated and it was found that every hospital has X-ray and ultrasound machine and some hospital do not have CT or MRI machine. So the percentage of X-ray and Ultrasound machine is 100% and another CT or MRI machine is 90% available on our researched hospital in Dhaka city. The patients in Dhaka city and also those who comes for treatment from outside Dhaka have accessibility to the medical equipments in Dhaka. But in private hospitals/clinics the medical equipment services are expensive. The public hospitals provide cheaper service and so more cost effective medical services needs to be implemented for patients.

Keywords: Medical Imaging, Instruments, Hospitals, Clinics, Applications, Cost, Dhaka

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0510022