Accessing medical equipment in developing countries through remanufacturing
Eze, Solomon and Ijomah, Winifred and Wong, Tse Chiu (2019) Accessing medical equipment in developing countries through remanufacturing. Journal of Remanufacturing, 9 (3). pp. 207-233. ISSN 2210-4690 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13243-018-0065-7)
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Abstract
While many developing countries may not afford state-of-the-art medical equipment, they may take advantage of the significant price reduction and other benefits of remanufacturing to solve their perennial healthcare problems that are aggravated by the shortage of medical equipment. As a first step towards implementing medical equipment remanufacturing in developing countries, the regulatory perspectives which plays a crucial role in the industry should be understood. However, since regulation of medical equipment is weak or inexistent in most developing countries, the regulatory perspectives with respect to remanufacturing or related activities in both the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (US) are first examined to determine their impacts. Unfortunately, there appears to be a lack of precise definition of remanufacturing for medical devices. An unambiguous definition is necessary to promote effective research, improve understanding, ensure uniformity of standards, drive quacks out of the remanufacturing market and thus, enhance customer confidence in remanufactured products. This paper proposes a definition for medical equipment remanufacture. The principal advantage of this definition is that it could be adopted in future research toward increasing access to functional medical equipment to developing countries through remanufacturing.
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Item type: Article ID code: 66408 Dates: DateEvent31 October 2019Published4 January 2019Published Online12 December 2018AcceptedSubjects: Technology > Manufactures Department: Faculty of Engineering > Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 18 Dec 2018 12:19 Last modified: 21 Aug 2024 00:52 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66408