Medical equipment world: Earthquake or stimulate my medical outlet

Business agency April 23 hearing after the earthquake in Japan, China's exports of medical equipment to Japan will rise, the current views are mixed. Cai Tianzhi, director of the medical equipment department of China Medical Insurance Association, believes that the earthquake in Japan may have a certain role in promoting the export of protective equipment in China, and may cause the transfer of Japan's medical device manufacturing sector to the country. In the first half of this year, the comprehensive protection of wound protection materials and personal radiation protection products for needles, catheters and cannulae for injecting in hospitals, hospital sterilized tampon, cotton wool, gauze, bandages, surgical napkins, and medical cover cloths, etc. There may be a certain increase in the market's exports, but the demand for emergency medical equipment products by the Japanese medical system may not be expected by some people.

Japan is the most important medical device market in the Asia Pacific region, which accounts for about half of the total sales of the medical device market in the Asia Pacific region. There are more than a dozen medical device companies in the United States with subsidiaries in Japan. Larger companies include Boston Scientific Instruments, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Albert, Covidien, Stryker, and St. Jude. Among them, the products of Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and Albert, etc. occupy a share of 5% to 6% in the Japanese medical device market. (Shen Yi)

Chongqing Municipality promotes medical equipment to the countryside. Recently, the Chongqing Municipal Government announced that it will continue to launch pilot projects for domestic medical devices to rural areas this year, sending more than 20 kinds of high-end domestically produced medical devices such as insomnia treatment devices to rural areas.

Last year, the “Domestic Innovative Medical Device Product Application Demonstration Project” was launched in Chongqing. The first batch of domestically-produced innovative medical device products with independent intellectual property rights amounted to more than 1,000 sets of more than 60 medical device companies nationwide, with a total value of nearly 70 million yuan. Freely allocated to basic medical institutions of all districts, counties, towns and communities in Chongqing for trial.

According to statistics, at present, the city has 10 district and county hospitals, 25 township hospitals and 22 community hospitals. A total of 57 primary medical institutions use these domestic high-end medical devices. Among them, the domestically-adopted innovative medical devices such as color ultrasound, insomnia treatment instruments, and fetal heart monitors promoted in Dadukou District of Chongqing are very popular among citizens. The cost of patients can be reduced by 20% to 30%, and some can be used free of charge. (Xinhua)

The construction of the Suzhou Medical and Mechanical City self-built project started recently. The first self-built project of the Jiangsu Medical Device Technology Industrial Park was started. Suzhou Keer Medical Devices Co., Ltd. invested by the main shareholder of Keling Medical and Electric Co., Ltd. was held in Suzhou Science and Technology City. Ceremony, officially settled.

It is understood that Keer medical equipment registered capital of 22 million yuan, is a professional engaged in high-end surgical medical equipment R & D, manufacturing, sales of integrated enterprises. The first phase of the construction of Cole Medical has a total construction area of ​​150,000 square meters and a total investment of more than 60 million yuan. It is expected that it will be put into production in March next year.

Jiangsu Medical Device Technology Industrial Park is the first batch of provincial-level science and technology industrial parks in Jiangsu Province. Up to now, the Industrial Park has successfully introduced the world's top 500 companies, Thermo Fisher, listed companies, Yuyue Medical, and Zhongsheng Beikong, R&D and innovation. More than 20 enterprises and professional appraisal organizations, including Novartis, Cheung Kwong Wah Medical, Kai Di Tai Medical, Xinshi Optoelectronics, and Jiangsu Medical Device Testing Institute, have a total registered capital of more than 2 billion yuan.