The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the medical devices policy. According to Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, the aim of this policy will be to promote industry in a “holistic manner” from the current size of $11 billion to $50 billion over the next five years.
During the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s medical devices sector played a crucial role in the large scale production of medical devices and diagnostic kits, such as Ventilators, Rapid Antigen Test kits, Real-Rime Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) kits, Infrared (IR) Thermometers, Personal Protective Equipment(PPE) Kits and N-95 masks.
