Tariffs pose a near-term risk. However, Zydus’s focus on novel drugs and the foray into medical devices are key moves to watch
The Indian medical devices opportunity is large and growing – roughly $11.25 billion of domestic demand and $3 billion of global demand that can be serviced from India
In 2018, British private equity firm Apax Partners acquired Healthium Medtech from investors including TPG Growth and CX Partners
The company, a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions provider, said as a part of the investment, its 'Made in India' PET CT Discovery IQ scanner will be exported to 15 countries.
The company will use the funds to build a Rs 300-crore integrated manufacturing facility for neurovascular devices at Mysore.
The issue came up for discussion during the 14th Trade Policy Forum (TPF) meeting here. It was co-chaired by US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal here.
The partnership makes use of the NVIDIA Holoscan and NVIDIA IGX Orin platforms, which have ultra-low latency in data transport, improved image processing, and scalability to support a variety of AI-enabled applications
The Indian medical device industry is at an inflection point and the current policy could trigger the next phase of its growth
The court said the decision to include all medical devices as “drugs” was a policy matter and no case for interference was made out as there was no arbitrariness or unreasonableness.
Through a notification issued on June 19 this year, the government decided to allow the import of "high-end and high-value” used medical equipment other than critical care medical equipment, AiMeD stated.