The very establishment of the study field is the result of the previous multi-year cooperation of CTU FBMI and the Czech Development Agency with Cambodian partners, which included the opening of a new special laboratory for teaching the subjects "Fluid Mechanics in Biomedicine" and "Plumbing in Healthcare".
"These subjects should be a kind of prerequisite for teaching follow-up subjects focused on the actual work with medical devices. And it is the introduction of practical teaching with medical devices that we would like to focus on in this new project," said Prof. Ing. Karel Roubík, Ph.D., Vice Dean for Foreign Relations and PR of CTU FBMI.
"It is not every day that we encounter a topic in which the Czech Republic is the first in development cooperation. However, in Cambodia we are the only donor that is dedicated to building this important profession," His Excellency Mgr. Martin Vávra, Ambassador of the Czech Republic mentioned during the meeting with the University of Health Sciences.
Many Cambodian hospitals have sufficient quality medical equipment, thanks to material support from countries around the world. However, the fundamental problem is that no one can 'take care of' these devices. Generally, biomedical engineers are responsible for the entire life cycle of a device in a hospital, from purchase, through initial installation, staff training and regular servicing and repair, to scrapping in the event of the device being beyond repair or posing a risk to patients or staff when used. However, this is not a common practice in Cambodia. "And we would like to change that," add Ing. Šimon Walzel and Ing. Ladislav Bís from the team of the Department of Biomedical Engineering of CTU FBMI.
