Medical equipment manufacturing zone set up in Faisalabad: Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry on Sunday announced the successful setting up of a medical equipment manufacturing zone in Faisalabad.

In a tweet, the federal minister said that the medical equipment manufacturing zone has been established on 200 acres in Faisalabad Industrial Zone.

فیصل آباد انڈسٹریل زون میں دو سو ایکڑ پر میڈیکل آلات بنانےکا زون قائم کیا ہے اس سے 1.4 ارب ڈالر کی میڈیکل آلات کی امپورٹس جو ہم کرتے ہیں بہت کم ہو جائیں گی، سرنج، سوئیاں، Canolas, Xray Machines, Heart stunts , Dialysis machines ہم پاکستان میں بنائیں گے, اگلا زون سیالکوٹ ہو گا

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) September 27, 2020

"This zone will focus on manufacturing syringes, needles, canolas, x-ray machines, heart stunts, dialysis machines etc. The local manufacturing of all this equipment would reduce medical device imports worth Rs1.4 billion," the minister said.