Medical devices centre to come up at Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar

The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad (NIPER) plans to set up India’s first national centre for medical devices(NCMD) in Gandhinagar in next two years at estimated cost of Rs 100 crore. The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India has assigned NIPER-Ahmedabad to do this task in the recently announced medical devices policy. The center will come up at NIPER’s new campus being developed at Chiloda in Gandhinagar. The new centre will have testing facility, research and development center and regulatory divisions and biomedical engineering facility for medical devices. Gujarat has over 100 medical devices companies.