Actually, Keith, I'm a great fan of Japanese kit myself. Once I had encountered Shimadzu, Showa, Toshiba
et al there was "no going back" as far as I was concerned. But you're spot-on about African mains. That's the real killer, of all sorts of kit. Indian x-ray equipment is also quite appropriate for Africa, too. They make earlier generations of Siemens x-ray kit out there (
ie, in India), as you probably know.
