It always confused me. A hospital has an MRI or some other machine, and you hear they try to use it as little as possible to cut costs, because it costs them this or that amount per usage. But why would that be if they own it?
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Every medical device is engineered to a vastly higher standard. The risks of anything going wrong are so substantial. So the equipment it self is super expensive.
The staff who operate the machine are all paid, and again the risks of anything going wrong are substantial so you have redundant staff. Again adding operational costs.
The enviroment has to be impeccably clean so between each use the equipment has to be sanitized meaning that the length of its usable service is not just the time for your procedure but also the time for some one to clean it before the next procedure.
The maintenance on specialized medical equipment is not done but general maintenance staff at the hospital, instead the company producing the equipment has specialists who travel to various hospitals to conduct routine maintenance,
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