Emmanuel Mawutohou Essah

• Oversee the biomedical equipment management program across a hospital network and support center.
• Ensuring optimal functionality and reliability of all medical devices.
• Set and execute long-term strategies that align with patient safety, operational efficiency, and compliance standards.
• Act as a liaison between clinical teams, administrators, and external stakeholders to ensure seamless communication and alignment with organizational goals.
• Manage and mentor a team of 13 BMETs, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and professional growth.
• Develop training plans to enhance technical skills, certifications, and adherence to industry best practices.
• Promote patient safety
• Cultivate a positive work environment that fostered employee engagement, increased retention rates, and boosted overall team morale.
• Proactively identified potential risks and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize negative impacts on projects or business operations.
• Enhance team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Strengthen internal controls by reviewing existing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Designed biomedical assessment tool for safe surgery to be used to formulate biomedical training program.
• Perform biomedical assessment of health care systems to identify needs and formulate appropriate biomedical training program in Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Madagascar.
• Interviewed potential participants to select 18 biomedical technicians for biomedical capacity building program in Guinea, Senegal and Liberia.
• Provide recommendations to Mercy Ships' Equipment Donations and Review Team on medical equipment donations to various partners.
• Helped Healthcare Management Unit at Ministry of Health of Liberia to design biomedical training center to serve as platform that offers professional biomedical training to biomedical technicians of Liberia.
• Helped Healthcare Management Unit equip training center with appropriate medical equipment, test equipment and IT equipment.
• Offered mentoring program to participants in their hospitals in Liberia and Senegal.
• In collaboration with Gamal University faculty, provided inputs for curriculum design of biomed training center at Gamal University - Guinea.
• Maintain communication with participants and government officials.
• Collaborate with team members to achieve target results.
• Currently working with various partners in Sierra Leone to design biomedical training curriculum to be used by training institution in Sierra Leone.
• Currently working on participants selection for electronic course and biomedical training program organized by Mercy Ships in Sierra Leone.

• Led biomedical department while senior biomedical was on leave of absence.
• Supervised and mentored two biomedical technicians in conducting repairs and calibration of sterilizers, patient monitors, electro-surgical units and anesthesia machines.
• Carried out repairs that saved organization more than $15000.
• Provided validation, inspection, repairs and maintenance on clinical biomedical equipment.
• Documented service and repair procedures accurately and completely and submitted monthly reports to manager.
• Performed preventive maintenance for medical equipment.
• Installed, calibrated and monitored biomedical equipment.
• Provided in-service training to new medical staff when arrived.

• Assessed local hospitals to determine appropriate biomedical training.
• Selected 18 biomedical technicians for training.
• Worked with biomedical training partners to deliver biomedical training to local biomedical technicians.
• Offered biomedical mentoring program to participants.
• Maintains communication with government officials and participants.

• Designed dental equipment training course for 8 biomedical technicians from Guinea.
• Trained 8 biomedical technicians on dental equipment
• Training delivered was both theory and practical on dental equipment.

• Performed preventative maintenance of medical equipment as directed by Senior Biomedical Technician.
• Save organization money on Preventive Maintenance expenses by preforming yearly preventive maintenance on Hematology Analyzer and biomedical chemistry analyzer. Organization saved
• Documented service and repair procedures accurately and completely and submitted monthly reports to manager.
• Provided validation, inspection, repairs and maintenance on clinical biomedical equipment.
• Documented service and repair procedures accurately and completely and submitted monthly reports to manager
• Documented information regarding installations, repairs and inventory checks
• Inspected, tested and calibrated medical equipment before installing
• Performed Electrical Safety Inspections (ESI) and Performance Assurance (PA) inspections
• Trained staff on proper operation of equipment as well as initial troubleshooting techniques
• Maintained safe work environment and adhered to privacy regulations
• Performed preventive maintenance for medical equipment
• Instructed healthcare staff about use and care of biomedical equipment

• Accessed four district hospitals in Benin and interviewed their biomedical technicians to select two eligible biomedical technicians for biomedical capacity building program and formulate suitable training program for them.
• Designed suitable curriculum for capacity building program.
• Trained two biomedical technicians from two district hospitals on both theory and practical. Practical training included how to properly and safely use biomedical test equipment such as socket testers, electrical safety analyzer and patient simulator to run functional test, performance verification and calibration of medical equipment accordingly.
• Pre course test and post course test was delivered. Post course test revealed that participants learned considerably after training mainly on safe use of biomedical test equipment, performance verification of medical equipment and safety testing.