Rigel Medical analysers have been specified for a South African project designed to improve standards of medical device safety and performance inspection.
The Rigel 288 electrical safety analyser, Uni-Pulse defibrillator analyser, and Uni-Sim – reportedly the first ‘all-in-one’ vital signs simulator, are among several precision testers being used by Pretoria’s National Department of Health for its health technology audit and asset management scheme. This aims to create seven teams of highly trained technicians and equip them with the skills to understand better the importance of electrical safety testing and how to service and maintain medical equipment. Once qualified, they will embark on a programme of safety and performance inspections of biomedical equipment using the Rigel instruments, thus improving national safety testing procedures, and ensuring that more electrically operated equipment, such as X-ray machines, ECGs, and blood pressure units, used throughout South Africa, are safe for use by medical staff and patients. Rigel Uni-Therm (formerly the 377) electro-surgical analysers and MedeBase PC database software are also being used to improve the technicians’ skills.
