18-Oct-17 The medical devices industry in India is valued at USD5.2 bn, says the Make-in-India survey, contributing 4-5% to the USD97 bn healthcare industry with its 800 medical device manufacturers, with an average turnover of INR500 mn (USD7.7 mn). [image: Reuters] 

17-Oct-17 India's government is working towards an Ayurveda hospital in each district of the country said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as he asserted that the time has come for a "health-revolution," affordable and accessible healthcare for the poor. [image: ET Healthworld]

13-Oct-17 Indian officials announced medical tourism in the country can grow to become a USD9 bn industry by 2020 and that India is among the "fastest growing medical tourism destinations in Asia", noting that medical tourism has shifted towards Asia. [image: FICCI]

11-Oct-17 Samsung India and Apollo Hospitals announced their collaboration to run jointly the Samsung-Apollo technology backed Mobile Medical Care. The program will screen large sections of the population for non-communicable diseases, particularly the under-privileged sections of the Indian population. [image: ET Healthworld]

10-Oct-17 DocOnline, a virtual platform providing access to medical consulting services, plans to roll out services in five more Indian states and several Southeast Asian countries, and offer its digital healthcare services to consumers in 2018. [image: Startup Hyderabad]