Pakistan is set to start the indigenous manufacturing of essential medicalequipment including stents, cannulas, syringes, needles, x-ray, anddialysis machines following the establishment of the 200-acre medicalequipment manufacturing zone in the Faisalabad industrial zone.
It was revealed by the Federal Minister for Science and Technology, FawadChaudhry, adding that local manufacturing of essential medical equipmentwill help Pakistan reduce its $1.4 billion annual medical import bill.——————————
The minister further said that another medical equipment manufacturing zonewill be set up in Sialkot in the coming months, enabling the district’scurrent annual exports of $400 million to cross $2 billion in just twoyears.
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Besides, the Ministry for Science and Technology recently inked an MoU withthe Capital Development Authority to turn Islamabad into Pakistan’s firstcity with all-electric transport in the next 3 to 5 years, allowing thecountry to save Rs. 510 million on its annual fuel import bill.
