First indigenous monkeypox test kit releasedThe Transasia-Erba monkeypox RT-PCR kit is highly sensitive, but an easy-to-use test with uniquely formulated primer and probe for enhanced...
Curated Living Solutions to develop student housing facility at Andhra Pradesh MedTech ZoneAMTZ is an enterprise established by the Indian Government and the Government of Andhra Pradesh to manufacture medical equipment. Aiming to...
India imports 80% of its requirement of medical devices: MoS Ashwini ChoubeyThe Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is presently regulating 28 categories of notified medical devices under the provisi...
M&M-Skanray Technologies' indigenously designed ventilator fails to meet govt specsHLL Lifecare, the government’s procurement agency, rejected the device because it did not meet the specifications set by the government, Al...
As demand sputters, ventilator makers want export ban to goDomestic companies, which have ramped up capacities over the last four months, said supply of ventilators was not the issue. The shortages ...
Low-cost ventilator maker AgVa asked to upgrade productDiwakar Vaish of Noida-based AgVa Healthcare told ET that state-run hospitals JJ and St George in Mumbai, which had returned its ventilator...
Maharashtra, Delhi given maximum Ventilators Procured from PM-CARES fundThe PM CARES Fund Trust has allocated Rs 2000 crore for supply of 50000 ‘Made-in-India’ ventilators to government-run COVID hospitals in al...
Cheaper test kit by IIT Delhi to hit market soonA Covid-19 testing kit developed by IIT-Delhi and costing half the price of a widely used diagnostic tool is set to hit the market this wee...
Harsh Vardhan launches mobile laboratory for coronavirus testingThe mobile lab, also called I-Lab or Infectious Diseases Diagnostics Lab, can run 50 RT-PCR and about 200 ELISA tests in a day.
Genie Labs to make IIT-Delhi's PCR diagnostic assay kit for Covid-19While standard RT-PCR kits in the market are probe-based, this design does away with probes completely. Instead it detects COVID-19 specifi...
Can coronavirus crisis change Indian science for good?It's unlike software. Vaccines, drugs and medical devices cannot be churned out overnight.
Chandrababu Naidu pats Jagan govt for test kit rollout from Vizag facilityNaidu said schemes such as Anna Canteens, insurance and real-time governance system (RTGS) could help effectively handle the Covid-19 outbr...
Andhra Pradesh starts making rapid Covid-19 testing kitsThe unit at AP MedTech Zone in Visakhapatnam can produce 2,000 testing kits a day, the state government said on Wednesday. This capacity ma...
Andhra Pradesh Medi-Tech Zone set to manufacture ventilators, Covid-19 testing kitsThe Centre has already placed an order for 3,500 ventilators and the assembling of the units will start from April 15, according to the And...
Commerce Ministry approves 15 projects for export infrastructure under TIESOf the total scheme outlay of Rs 600 crore, Rs 80 crore was provided in 2017-18 and the same amount will be provided during the current fis...
Think3D to open facility at Andhra Pradesh medical devices parkThe facility, to come up on an area of 20,000 sft, will offer prototyping and low volume manufacturing to medical devices companies in AMTZ.
Andhra Pradesh ties up with TUV Rheinland to test medical devicesThe public-private partnership is aimed at reducing the medical devices imports and production cost and to help deliver quality medical dev...