by admin | Feb 22, 2017 | MtaI News
GUEST POST WRITTEN BY Sanjay Bhutani Mr. Bhutani is the India head for Bausch & Lomb and founding member of the Medical Technology Association of India. GST, the biggest tax reform in independent India, is on course to implementation and is set to change the way...
by admin | Feb 18, 2017 | MtaI News
Apprehensions of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) about the creation of an artificial shortage in stents appear to have come true. Major stent companies have been withdrawing the more expensive brands from hospitals claiming that they are doing it...
by admin | Oct 25, 2016 | MtaI News
PavanChoudary, Director General, MTaI says, “We are disappointed that some points on which the Health Ministry had agreed to are not reflected in the draft rules. We are optimistic that continuing in the inclusive & consultative tone set by the ministry...
by admin | Oct 24, 2016 | MtaI News
This time united by cause, the otherwise divided medical device industry, has reacted similarly and negatively on government’s new set of rules. Perhaps it is for the first time that medical device industry which generally has been fragmented into Indian and foreign...
by admin | Oct 20, 2016 | MtaI News
The second draft of the medical devices regulations, which were notified by the Union health ministry on Wednesday, four months after the first draft was issued, have once again drawn industry flak. The fresh rules, while dividing the medical devices into four groups...
by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | MtaI News
On Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the launch of Ayushman Bharat,now Jan Aarogya Abhiyan covering 50 crore people. The mission is to give access to the country’s poor to quality and affordable healthcare. Around 10 crore families will get...
by admin | Aug 14, 2018 | MtaI News
The top medical association representing global MedTech firms has announced that it is organizing the ‘MTaI Medtekon’ on September 20, 2018 to address outstanding issues in the government’s premier healthcare flagship scheme New Delhi: The National Health...
by admin | Oct 20, 2016 | MtaI News
The Union government has notified a set of new rules to regulate the medical device sector – worth thousands of crores and growing. For the first time, the rules will make a distinction between medical devices and drugs and pharmaceuticals, creating separate standards...
by admin | Oct 20, 2016 | MtaI News
The health ministry’s medical devices rules still deviate from globally accepted practices, insisting on conditions like different labelling requirements and shorter expiry dates for the products, argue global medical device makers upset with the third draft of...
by admin | Oct 15, 2016 | MtaI News
The multinational medical technology majors are seeking the authorities to remove regulatory hurdles for importing pre-owned medical equipment to the country. While these companies manufacture in India and support the Centre’s initiatives to promote...
by admin | Oct 15, 2016 | MtaI News
The medical devices industry remains bitterly divided even as the Centre looks to regulate import of pre-owned products Away from the glare of very public discussions on stents, a device used largely in the heart, another debate engulfs the medical devices...
by admin | Oct 11, 2016 | MtaI News
The center-right government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says it has the medical devices sector squarely in its sights as one of its priority “Make in India” sectors to boost domestic manufacturing and spur job creation, and global medical device makers are...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | MtaI News
Contemporary bare-metal stents are as good as drug-eluting stents—their newer generation counterparts—a new Norwegian study on over 9,000 patients has found. The observation comes at a time when India has decided to clamp price controls on stents and the government is...
