Meanwhile, the health ministry’s proposal to the department of expenditure seeking recruitment of manpower to form a vertical in the CDSCO has been approved. “We need human resource to set up laboratories, to test devices. The finance department is agreeable to our demands,” the official said.
As per a report by the department of pharmaceuticals, both imports and exports of medical devices grew at more than 10% between 2011-12 and 2014-15.
The country’s medical devices has grown from $2.02 billion in 2009 to $3.9 billion in 2015, at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8%.
CDSCO Received approval to Increase ManPower
