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Gujarat FDCA To Tie-Up With NIPER
Ahmedabad For Skilled Manpower For Medical Device Park
Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) is
planning to tieup with National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and
Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad to help get trained manpower for its upcoming
medical device park at Sanand near Ahmedabad.
High quality and skilled manpower in the country is one of
the critical requirements in the medical devices sector today as more than 70
per cent of devices are imported as of today which is impacting the development
of the domestic industry.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make In India campaign has
gained further impetus as government is planning to expand NIPERs across the
country to nurture manpower and hence boost domestic manufacturing of medical
devices in the country.
The plan to train manpower is subsequent to Union minister of
chemicals and fertilisers Ananth Kumar’s announcement for setting up medical
device park in Gujarat. Gujarat government has also identified land at Sanand
for the same and Detailed Project Report (DPR) has also been submitted for a
favourable response from the Centre, informed an official associated with the
development.
The Centre has been mulling for quite some time now for
setting up the medical devices park in Gujarat in a bid to make India
selfreliant in the sector.
Says Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA)
commissioner Dr H G Koshia, “Since the state of Gujarat has the highest number
of 135 licensed medical device companies as against 240 in the entire country, a
medical device park would be a relevant breakthrough for Gujarat.”
This would also complement the first upcoming medical device
testing lab of the country at Vadodara in Gujarat by the end of this year.
Department of pharmaceuticals (DoP) under the Union ministry of chemicals and
fertilisers for the last one year has actively engaged both the NIPERs and the
pharma industry to build partnership in areas of education, research and
development.
NIPER Ahmedabad is also being developed as a National Centre
for Medical Devices (NCMD) which will provide a conducive environment to nurture
innovators and industry to further the vision of quality medical device
manufacturing in the country through synergies with the government and other
stake holders.
The creation of manufacturing park for medical devices is the
need of the hour as medical devices manufacturing requires certain high
investment facilities which are too capital intensive for individual
manufacturers to invest upon. A park with in-house high investment scientific
facilities would help manufacturers reduce the cost of manufacturing by more
than 40 per cent to 50 per cent.
Currently, due to lack of such centrally located common
facilities, manufacturers do not undertake production of technologies and
therefore send their products abroad for process up-gradation and value
addition.
This will also help facilitate to create an ecosystem for
manufacturing of high end medical device manufacturing aimed at import
substitution and export opportunities and would be a major boost to SMEs.
(Ref:
http://www.pharmabiz.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?aid=97152&sid=1)
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