Short-term programme in biomedical engineering

Updated on: Tuesday, December 08, 2009

With the demand for biomedical engineers and technicians being increasingly felt in health care institutions in Puducherry, two tailor-made certificate courses for engineers and diploma-holders have been launched to train candidates in the service and maintenance of medical equipment.

Foraying into the vocational stream of biomedical engineering, the Pondicherry Institute of Biomedical Engineering run by the Franco Indian Vocational Training Institute Society (FIVTI) of the Labour Department, Government of Puducherry has started the courses —Biomedical Certificate Course for Engineers (BMCE) and Biomedical Certificate Course for Technicians (BMCT) — to cater to the required manpower in the sector. “Presently, health care institutions in Puducherry including medical colleges and hospitals immediately need around 80 biomedical engineers/technicians. There is definitely a good demand in this sector. These courses cater to the actual servicing and maintenance of medical equipment,” said C. Jeyaseelan Devadoss, Director of FIVTI.

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