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The art of installing medical equipment and doing maintenance and service during a pandemic
Author: - GE Healthcare
Excerpt: 2020 turned out to be far from normal. From one day to another, all focus was put on keeping our equipment running so customers could diagnose and treat patients in the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. The onset of the pandemic meant that hundreds of hospitals and clinics throughout the UK and Ireland didn’t know if they were able to get vital equipment installed and maintained – in a time more critical than anyone could remember, when nobody knew just how many patients with COVID-19 would need diagnosis and treatment and when it was absolutely crucial to ensure minimal downtime for scanners and other machines.