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Medical devices in Sub-Saharan Africa: optimal assistance via a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in Benin

“…Generally, three complications refrain the adoption of CMMS tools in lower-income country hospitals; namely, they are difficult to implement, they are expensive, and they are not available. BGMaint-KM Benin^, overcomes these difficulties, verifies the recommendations of [28,29] and follows an effective and appropriate need-driven and context-specific design model. Indeed, BGMaint-KM Benin^facilitates data entry, is flexible, configurable and performs error checks.…”

“…This makes it possible to meet the needs of the different actors and, therefore, of different hospitals. The tool BGMaint-KM Benin^does a fairly complete task, which is to recall the story of what happened on a particular repair [29]. Moreover, it shows all the requirements of an ideal CMMS tool for the management of health technologies according to Cohen et al [28], because it manages the data for the inventory and the monitoring of the equipment in the context of the specific characteristics of the equipment park in a health system of a developing country.…”