Strengthening of Developing Countries Biomedical Engineering By the Developed Countries: The Engineering World Health Example

The primary purpose of this paper is to adequately motivate the biomedical engineering community, especially from the developed countries to help develop and strengthen biomedical engineering in the developing countries. Specific challenges were identified in the WC2006 and WC2009 where the primary author noted that many of the developing countries, especially those of the sub-Saharan Africa were note usually represented due mainly to those factors that made them really developing. Nevertheless, a few organisations from the developed countries have strengthened and will continue to strengthen biomedical engineering in the developing countries. A few of them have been taken as a case study in this paper including Global Assistance for Medical Equipment (GAME), World Health Organisation (WHO), Northwestern University, USA and Engineering World Health (EWH), USA. Though, this few is not enough, especially as the strengthening is not equitably distributed in some cases. The various programmes from the developed countries targeted to the developing nations are so nice. In particular those of the EWH for the developing countries are strategic, especially for the activities of the IFMBE Working Group on Developing Countries.