Mapping
The first structured map of medical devices in the field — what exists, where it is and what it needs. Starting in Africa, built for every LMIC.
Beta · Africa & LMICs
Keeping medical devices alive where they're needed most
FixMyMedTech gives biomedical engineers in Africa and other low- and middle-income countries the documentation, AI tools, spare parts and community to diagnose, repair and maintain medical equipment.
Example repair: an oxygen concentrator in Douala is reported broken, its service documentation is found, a nearby engineer is assigned, AI support helps with the diagnosis where needed, a spare part is found two clinics away, and it is back in service the same day.
- Oxygen concentrators
- Patient monitors
- Infant incubators
- Infusion pumps
- Ultrasound scanners
- Autoclaves
- Anaesthesia machines
- Defibrillators
- Suction pumps
- X-ray units
The problem
Devices break. In low-resource settings, they often stay broken.
Clinics and hospitals across Africa and other LMICs depend on donated or low-cost equipment that arrives without documentation, without spare parts and often already worn. When it fails, the knowledge and resources to fix it are rarely close at hand.
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No documentation
Devices arrive without manuals, schematics or maintenance guides, so diagnosis becomes guesswork.
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No spare parts
Parts aren't stocked locally, donors rarely supply them and design files for fabrication are never shared.
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No training support
Biomedical engineers lack structured training, peer support and reliable reference material.
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Harsh conditions
Heat, humidity, dust and unstable power wear equipment out far faster than manufacturers plan for.
The community supports every step of the loop
Our solution
A repair loop, powered by community
Every device tagged and every repair logged makes the next diagnosis faster — and at every step, engineers across Africa and other LMICs are there to help.
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Tag & report
Each device gets a QR tag. Clinic staff scan it to report a fault in seconds, and it appears on the shared device map.
Engineers map devices together, country by country.
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Diagnose with docs + AI
Manuals, service guides and schematics in one offline-ready library, with an AI co-pilot that structures the root-cause analysis.
Ask peers who have already fixed the same model.
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Repair & source parts
A shared inventory connects engineers with parts held by other clinics and suppliers — buy, sell or trade inside the network.
Members trade parts and share fabrication files.
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Share the fix
Each solved fault becomes a repair guide the next engineer can follow.
Fixes are reviewed and improved by the community, then reused from one country to the next.
What makes us different
Three pillars, one mission
AI repair co-pilot
Not a chatbot: a structured assistant that reads the documentation, guides diagnosis and works alongside the engineer.
Oxygen concentrator
In repair
- Low O₂ purity alarm reproduced
- Service manual §4.2 — sieve bed test
- Replace sieve bed, re-test purity
Community
Training, crowdsourced repair knowledge and engineers helping each other across borders.
- Peer support
- Training
- Shared fixes
- Open source
Long-term vision
From repair hubs to manufacturing hubs
Our end goal: local manufacturing hubs in every country that needs them — assembling devices with 3D printing, CNC, laser cutting and PCB fabrication. Import raw materials. Build everything else locally.
Path: repair, then fabricate parts, then manufacture devices.
The team
Biomedical engineers building for biomedical engineers
Claude
Biomedical Engineer
CameroonTeresa
Biomedical Engineer
SpainJason
Biomedical Engineer
Belgium
Get involved
Join us on the ground floor
Whether you repair devices, fund them, regulate them or distribute them — in Africa or any LMIC — we want to hear from you.
- Biomedical engineers
- NGOs
- Ministries of health
- Device distributors
The platform is free for engineers.