Dhaka
International Dia-gnostic Medical Equipment Expo - 2025" is an important
platform to showcase the latest modern technologies, enhance
collaboration, and accelerate the growth of the diagnostic medical
equipment as well as health sector.
The organizers and
participants of the fair believe that it will play a special role in the
journey towards a healthier and technologically advanced future for
healthcare.
According to them, this fair will have seminars as
well as direct business-to-business and business-to-customer
communication with manufacturers. The participants will be able to learn
about modern technology and its uses and newly developed technologies
in the diagnostic medical equipment sector, along with expanding market
potential.
More than 200 medical equipment manufacturing
companies from China, Japan, Pakistan, India, Korea and Bangladesh
exhibited their products at the three-day fair from April 17 to 19. The
fair was inaugurated on Thursday by Md Sayedur Rahman, special assistant
to the chief adviser for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Diagnostic
Medical Equipment Expo organizer and Eco Expo Chief Executive Officer
Md Rajwanur Rahman told the Daily Observer that 95 per cent of the
modern technology we see in Bangladesh's hospitals is imported. One or
two companies in Bangladesh manufacture syringes and bandages. But most
of it is imported. The Medical Expo has various topics including
hospitals, services, surgical devices and equipment. But our Diagnostic
Medical Equipment Expo is based only on medical devices.
The main
purpose of this fair is to provide our domestic stakeholders, such as
doctors, diagnostic businessmen, and high-level hospital management
members, with the latest technology being released around the world, to
see it here and upgrade themselves and make decisions about its use, he
said.
Rashid Mahmud Harun, Office Secretary of Diagnostic
Reagent and Equipment Traders Association of Bangladesh, told The Daily
Observer, "We bring diagnostic machinery. This is a big sector. Our main
objective is to introduce our products to the diagnostic centre owners,
hospital management, and decision makers who will become clients. A
relationship is formed between small and large companies at the fair."
Besides,
many people have difficulty understanding where to get such machinery
and what their prices are. In that case, building a bridge between
buyers and sellers is also an objective of this fare, he said.
Pakistani
company Omensurgical Director Hafiz Umar Tanveer and Casis
International Production Manager Ali Ishaq, said that they mainly deal
in surgical items. They came to Bangladesh for the first time. They
think that through this expo, they will have a connection with the
Bangladeshi buyers. They also said that they are capable of supplying
any type of quality product.
Meanwhile, Monir Neuro Spine
Surgical Mart Founder and CEO Md Monirul Islam said that every expo is
an opportunity for them to meet new customers. At the same time, the
hospital management, doctors and people concerned in the country get an
idea about the updated and innovative medical equipment in the world. In
view of this, we can bring them the kind of demand they give.
Earlier,
at the inauguration ceremony, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Md
Sayedur Rahman said that medical institutions have become centralized.
There
are various hospitals in Dhaka providing good services. But if a
patient in Nilphamari or Thakurgaon suddenly has a heart attack, even if
s/he is saved with CPR, her or his condition worsens by the time s/he
reaches Dhaka.
Therefore, for good treatment, the quality of
medical services must be improved in the district cities as well.
Therefore, medical services must be decentralized throughout the
country.
Besides, it is not right for a doctor to see 100
patients a day, and patients also mind it. Here, the interaction needs
to be fixed and brought within the rules, he said.
Discussions
with stakeholders revealed that in 2025, the per capita expenditure on
healthcare in Bangladesh will increase to approximately $60. This is
likely to increase by 17.65per cent compared to 2020.
Over the
past two decades, Bangladesh's healthcare infrastructure has undergone
significant expansion. The number of registered private hospitals has
increased four folds, from 1,125 to 4,452. The number of clinics has
increased three folds, from 411 to 1,397, while dental clinics have
increased nearly seven folds, from 122 to 839. Diagnostic centres, on
the other hand, have increased six folds, from 1,778 to 10,291.
