FOREWORD
Sharing expertise in a challenging landscape
We once again want to share with you what we as an organisation are working on to improve healthcare engineering globally. Sometime ago, the executive of IFHE was challenged to look again at what the federation was doing and how we functioned. This resulted in us creating working groups to address all the concerns of the membership. Five working groups were established to address these issues: we needed to enhance our website to improve our communication with our members; we needed to provide some form of education regarding healthcare for our members; and we needed to change our governing structure to better manage our resources. These were our focus areas, and with
our volunteers we made steady progress. On the international front, we are
concerned with what is happening to healthcare facilities in places where war is occurring. While international humanitarian law mandates that healthcare facilities be protected during wartime, attacks on these facilities and their personnel are unfortunately becoming more common. Despite the legal protections, the reality on the ground is often very different, with hospitals and clinics becoming targets, disrupting access to vital medical care for those affected by conflict. We as an international organisation strongly condemn these attacks and encourage all parties to always see healthcare facilities as places of healing. With respect to the functioning of our
organisation and working towards our objective to disseminate information to our members, I am pleased to let you know that we are in the final stages of making the changes required to our standing orders and statutes to be more relevant to current needs regarding the management of our federation. Our communications and educational working groups had our first collaborative
Kevin Poggenpoel
Kevin Poggenpoel is president of the IFHE. He joined the Mediclinic group in 1990 and works with the group’s Middle East business to drive its initiative to become carbon neutral by 2030. Kevin is a member of SAFHE (South African Federation of Healthcare Engineering) and has served as president and chairperson in the different regions of South Africa.
session hosting our first webinar, which we made assessable to all our members globally.
Our IFHE events past and present
remain vehicles through which we intend to equip our members in order to remain relevant. Our Antwerp event was a huge success, and this edition of the Digest provides much information for our members in order to be aware of the changing landscape in healthcare. Our work as servants to the healthcare
Our work as servants to the healthcare industry remains a challenge, and I therefore continue to encourage all our members to remain focused on how best to serve and improve healthcare delivery IFHE DIGEST 2026
industry remains a challenge, and I therefore continue to encourage all our members to remain focused on how best to serve and improve healthcare delivery across the globe. The challenges are not getting less; they are just becoming more challenging, and as we saw during the pandemic, the value of collaborating and sharing is the only way we can face and solve some of these challenges. We therefore look forward to what is
being prepared for us in New Orleans 2026. We need to use our differences as tools to enhance our service delivery, and not as barriers to create division. Once again, I want to encourage all members across the globe to come together and share their knowledge and expertise with the wider healthcare fraternity.
Kevin Poggenpoel
President – International Federation of Healthcare Engineering
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