Indian stent makers | 合法醫療器材資訊網

The government’s move to regulate stent prices in order to bring in equilibrium and ensure affordability for patients has disrupted the entire market dynamics. Multi-national stent companies which sold their products at prices ranging between Rs 75,000 and more threatened the government to withdraw their high-end stents from the market. At the same time, Indian stent manufacturers took this as an opportunity to increase market share. Two years down the line, even with the government increasing the prices by about four per cent, this move has proved to be extremely beneficial for the sector in two crucial ways— made the market more competitive with increased accessibility of high quality stents and pushed Indian manufacturers to start investing in clinical research in order to improve quality.

With this backdrop, Express Healthcare conducted a series of interactive video interviews with leading national and international research experts and interventional cardiologists w...