Role and Impact of Biomedical Engineering Discipline for Developing Country Perspective

Abstract

For a developing and largely populated country, it is quite difficult to solve all healthcare related issues using existing technology with affordable cost and desired precision. Moreover, to carry out biomedical research and design to improve biomedical equipment, devices and maintenance are usually very expensive. Thus, it is imperative and possible to extent indigenous technologies and raw materials for the research activities to design and develop sustained biomedical devices and equipment, artificial organ and tissue, prosthetics and implants, image modalities and healthcare related software at low-cost. Thus, the research and study related to biomedical engineering need to improve to understand the role and impact of this subject as a discipline.

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