Disclaimer: The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), one of the country’s pre-eminent think tanks focused on The views expressed in this publication are that of the authors, and can no way be taken to reflect public health, has collaborated with the Indian Medical Parliamentarians’ Forum (IMPF) to research and that of the PHFI, IMPF or CLRA. [...] Towards ensuring equitable access to medical devices in country, this document aims to examine the definition and regulation of medical devices in India, the demand for high-end medical devices in the country, and the process of procurement and importation of the devices. [...] Aayog anticipates this growth to be bolstered by the use of high-end medical devices and the • It targets four key segments of high-value and low volume devices that require significant interventions thereof, but such an unbalanced growth has the risk of making the same devices and investments in R&D to stay relevant in the market, viz.,: interventions unaffordable for the Indian patients. [...] There is need for a balancing act between relaxation of rules to facilitate local manufacture 6 The framework for Global Tender Enquiry (GTE) is provided by the GFR 2017 and is relevant to the and rigorousness of regulations to ensure quality of medical devices supplied to the hospitals. [...] Since direct medical device usage data is sparse in India, the idea to infer the presence and or usage of medical devices by tracking the number of procedures occurring in the specialty wise was deemed suitable path to carry the research forward.
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