TEHRAN –Iranian knowledge-based firms will participate in the 16th international medical exhibition UzMedexpo 2024 which is scheduled to be held from September 18 to 20 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Innovation and Prosperity Fund will support Iranian delegations to set up their pavilions in Tashkent.

The three-day exhibition serves as a platform for companies to showcase their latest achievements in medical equipment, and pharmaceutical innovations.

The event revolves around exhibiting various medical services such as leasing; medical and pharmacy equipment; medical furniture; packaging; modern technologies in healthcare; means of rehabilitation and orthopedic products; medical clothing and footwear; medicines and their production; medical cosmetics; Dental equipment and materials.

Over 60 countries import Iranian medical equipment

On January 13, the head of Iran’s Union of Medical Equipment Manufacturers and Exporters said that medical equipment worth around $20 million is exported to more than 60 countries annually.

More than 70 percent of medical equipment and 100 percent of normal hospital beds are domestically made, IRNA quoted Abdolreza Yaqoubzadeh as saying.

Also, over 95 percent of specific ICU and CCU beds and more than 85 percent of operating room medical equipment such as anesthesia machines and other equipment are manufactured with cutting-edge technology in the country, he added.

Yaqoubzadeh went on to say that the country’s need for medical equipment production is three to four billion dollars per year, some one billion dollars of which is imported.

Some 600 medical equipment companies are active in the country, producing around 99 percent of the medicine supplied to the domestic market.

Medical equipment manufacturers in the country produce and supply over 10,000 types of medical equipment to domestic and foreign markets. Now, various pieces of laboratory equipment are manufactured at prices much lower than the same foreign products

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