Lok Sabha Question No. 5011 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-31
Subject: Biomedical Equipment Management and Maintenance Programme
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, BHARATENDRA SINGH, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5011 ST

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 31 MARCH, 2017

## BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE PROG RAMME

## 5011. SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

KUNWAR BHARATENDRA:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whetherthe Government is undertaking Biomedical Equipment Management and Maintenance Programme(BMMP) drive;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and aims and objectives behind the move;
- (c) the details of the steps taken under the prog amme;
- (d) the details of the outcome of such an exercise; and
- (e) whether the Government is planning to upgrade the equipment at public health centres and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

(SHRI FAGGAN SINGH KULASTE)

- (a) to (c): This Ministry has formulated Comprehensive Guidelines on Bio - medical Management and Maintenance Program (BMMP) along with the model RFP document.  These have been disseminated to the States to facilitate them to devise appropriate mech anism to ensure functionality and maintenance of the medical equipments in the health facilities.

Under  BMMP,  support  is  being  provided  to  state  governments  to  outsource  medical equipment  maintenance  comprehensively  for  all  the  equipments across  all  the  facilities  with payments linked to uptime of the equipments.

Various steps taken under the program are :

1. An extensive exercise was undertaken to map the inventory of all Bio -medical equipment including their functionality status. The mapp ing has been completed in 29 States.
2. 7,56,750 nos. of equipment in 29,115 health facilities costing approximately 4564 Crores were identified.
3. Equipment in range of 13% to 34% was found dysfunctional across states. Cost dysfunctional equipment (e xcluding Gujarat, Karnataka, Puducherry and Odisha) was estimated to be Rs 1015.74 Cr.
4. The implementation of the Program has to be done by the State Governments.
5. (d) : 14 States/UTs have already implemented the programme and 9 have released the RFP or arein the process of tendering.

The implementation of Biomedical Equipment Management and Maintenance Program (BMMP) has helped in improving diagnostics services in health facilities, thereby reduci of care and improving the quality of care in public health facilities.

- (e) : Public Health being a State subject, it is the responsibility of the States/UTs to effective healthcare that includes provision of  functional equipments in  Health Centres Under NHM, assistance is provided to the States/UTs to implement BMMP, based on the requirement projected by the States in their PIPs .