Indian government plans to table Medical Device Act

 19-Jul-16, Business Standard

The government is reportedly planning to table the new Medical Device Act in the forthcoming winter session of the Parliament. In fact, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on July 11, 2016 convened a meeting on promoting Make in India initiative in the medical devices sector.

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In the meeting, which was attended by leading associations in medical device industry including FICCI, Association of Indian Medical Device Manufacturers, CII and Medical Technology Association of India, a series of issues such as ease of doing business, regulation, fiscal imperatives, scaling manufacturing, promoting exports, encouraging innovations and to make India an attractive destination for investment in medical device sector were discussed.

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