Do we have regulations in place to ensure the quality of medical equipments used in India?
No. There has been no proper regulation till date to ensure the quality of the medical equipment being used in India. As a result of lack of restrictions on imports, India is being used mostly as a dump yard for refurbished equipments from the US. The Government needs to urgently formulate policies to control the quality of both the imported and the locally-manufactured MT products. What is the employment potential in the industry? The MT sector belongs to the high-mix low-volume category. As an applied science, MT draws inputs from industries such as biotechnology, semiconductor/electronic component industry, IT (information technology) industry, and mechanical industry. Therefore, growth of the MT industry can provide employments to several electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, biotechnologists, IT engineers apart from several unskilled workers both directly and indirectly. If India can demonstrate its strengths in the MT manufacturing space drawing strengths from these input i
