Open Access“Made in India”: How’s that for an indigenous medical device?
Author(s) -
Rao Gs
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2277-954X
pISSN - 2277-9167
DOI - 10.4103/2277-9167.118115
Subject(s) - indigenization , indigenous , certification , medical equipment , business , process (computing) , medical device , engineering , engineering management , operations management , medicine , management , computer science , nursing , economics , ecology , international trade , biomedical engineering , biology , operating system
With increasing costs of imported equipment, there is a need for Indigenization of medical devices in India. The resources including skilled manpower to develop equipment of a good standard are available in the country. What plagues the developmental process is the lack of adequate interaction between the medical profession and the technologists and reluctance of the industry to venture into the medical device manufacturing. A much bigger and more serious road-block is the lack of formal certification and regulatory processes for these devices. Medical practitioners should be open to evaluating and accepting indigenous equipment that pass the requisite standards. Formal mechanisms should be developed to orient both physicians and engineers to the technical and commercial issues of device development