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United States will be our major client, says the minister.

A Reuters image showing ventilators

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that Pakistan will have its own big medical and electromagnetic industry in the next three years.

“And I have no doubts that the United States will be our major client,” he said in a tweet.

The federal minister said that, “We are already exporting sanitizers and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the United States”.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279675764120653824

Last week, Fawad Chaudhry had appreciated the friendly gesture of the US of providing 100 ventilators to Pakistan while sharing that the country had joined a select list of countries producing their own ventilators.

In a video statement, Fawad Chaudhry had said that the ventilator is a "complicated machine and not a lot of countries in the world have the capacity to make this".

The minister expressed hope that the country would be able to meet its own need for ventilators and would also be able to export the equipment.

"When the first Covid-19 case was recorded in February 26, we were not producing anything. Within a few months, we have become capable of producing our own equipment," he said, congratulating the Pakistan Engineering Council, National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation (NRTC), scientists and technicians.

He said the next three designs are also in their final stages, after which Pakistan will be among the few countries in the world that manufacture complex medical machines, in accordance with the European Union (EU) standards.
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United States will be our major client, says the minister.

A Reuters image showing ventilators

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that Pakistan will have its own big medical and electromagnetic industry in the next three years.

“And I have no doubts that the United States will be our major client,” he said in a tweet.

The federal minister said that, “We are already exporting sanitizers and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the United States”.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279675764120653824

Last week, Fawad Chaudhry had appreciated the friendly gesture of the US of providing 100 ventilators to Pakistan while sharing that the country had joined a select list of countries producing their own ventilators.

In a video statement, Fawad Chaudhry had said that the ventilator is a "complicated machine and not a lot of countries in the world have the capacity to make this".

The minister expressed hope that the country would be able to meet its own need for ventilators and would also be able to export the equipment.

"When the first Covid-19 case was recorded in February 26, we were not producing anything. Within a few months, we have become capable of producing our own equipment," he said, congratulating the Pakistan Engineering Council, National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation (NRTC), scientists and technicians.

He said the next three designs are also in their final stages, after which Pakistan will be among the few countries in the world that manufacture complex medical machines, in accordance with the European Union (EU) standards.
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The Express Tribune

ventilators(lower end & CPAP/BiPaP machines), heart rate monitors, and numerous hospital equipment etc arent high tech equipment, most are made in China, and now in low tech countries like Taiwan, with Bangladesh being next in line
Pakistan simply didn't evolve beyond surgical scissors whereas other countries moved on

MRIs and modern CTs are high tech and are made in germany and japan usually

 

[Yaseen1]

these ventilators were also developed by military and no private company was able to make them on their own which shows how backward our industry is and is still working on 19 century technology

ventilators(lower end & CPAP/BiPaP machines), heart rate monitors, and numerous hospital equipment etc arent high tech equipment, most are made in China, and now in low tech countries like Taiwan, with Bangladesh being next in line
Pakistan simply didn't evolve beyond surgical scissors whereas other countries moved on

MRIs and modern CTs are high tech and are made in germany and japan usually

 

[ziaulislam]

these ventilators were also developed by military and no private company was able to make them on their own which shows how backward our industry is and is still working on 19 century technology

if govt offers a tender for home build vents, and remove all business hurdles, private people will come up..
but govt either likes importing stuff or make it impossible fo industry to flourish

 

[Fawadqasim1]

We need to manufacture drugs/medicens and it's precursors indigenously.

 

[Syed1.]

if govt offers a tender for home build vents, and remove all business hurdles, private people will come up..
but govt either likes importing stuff or make it impossible fo industry to flourish

Now Pakistan has somewhat of a ventilator production, what is stopping the government from passing a law/act/rule that any hospital in the country needing a ventilator will have to first approach local sources. That itself will foster industry. Systematically start doing this with every every piece of equipment. Won't happen though, we are a sucker for imported stuff.

 

[Hiraa]

Now Pakistan has somewhat of a ventilator production, what is stopping the government from passing a law/act/rule that any hospital in the country needing a ventilator will have to first approach local sources. That itself will foster industry. Systematically start doing this with every every piece of equipment. Won't happen though, we are a sucker for imported stuff.

I say do import machinery. Dissect it , make changes according to your needs and start manufacturing your own.

 

[ziaulislam]

Now Pakistan has somewhat of a ventilator production, what is stopping the government from passing a law/act/rule that any hospital in the country needing a ventilator will have to first approach local sources. That itself will foster industry. Systematically start doing this with every every piece of equipment. Won't happen though, we are a sucker for imported stuff.

pick up a newspaper today and find an ad for medical equipment. it is laways mentioned that only german or Japanese companies will be accepted
so its not even open competition