- Medical Devices Industry Rue Step-Motherly Treatment By Government - AiMed
- Government Telling Domestic Medical Devices Industry ‘Not To Make In India’ By Encouraging Imports Of Medical Devices -AiMed
- Unless Government Increase Import Duty, Domestic Medical Devices Industry Will Soon Become Redundant -AiMed
- With over 80-90% import Dependency, Our Universal Health Programme Will Never Take Off -AiMed
- To encourage employment and Make in India of Medical Devices and address 70-90% import dependency by a predictive nominal tariff protection policy as done for mobile phones to ensure a vibrant domestic industry & competitiveness and price stability driven by competing domestic players
- To protect Consumers from exploitatively high MRP in Medical Devices by rationalized price controls and aid ethical marketing
- To Regulate all Medical Devices under a Patients’ Safety Medical Devices Law to protect patients and aid responsible manufacturing
- To incentivize Quality in Healthcare Products in public healthcare procurements by preferential pricing for Q1 e.g. ICMED (QCI’s Indian Certification for Medical Devices) instead of L1 (lowest price) to ensure patients access acceptable quality