The Directorate of Medical Equipment, formerly the Directorate Bio-Medical Engineering has been created early 2001 within the Ministry of Health plan that aims at creating a party to be specialized and responsible for all issues related to medical equipment. The Directorate was provided with engineering, technical and administrative personnel that are qualified to assume its responsibilities.

Whereas the bodies that serve the process of medical equipment maintenance repair are scattered among the Royal Scientific Society, the Ministry and local agents. The Technical Cooperation Agreement has been concluded in the beginning of 2002 between the Ministry of Health and the Royal Scientific Society. Through this Agreement, the technical personnel of both parties were combined. The Directorate now has (150) engineers and technicians distributed on the different departments and workshops of the Directorate.