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UL India offers safety certification for equipment vendors.
UL India, an affiliate of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL Inc., USA) is confident that, by the end of this year, at least 50 medical equipment vendors would utilize its services in certification for product safety and quality standards.
The company has been providing its expertise in safety certification and tests for 13485 IS compliance for a range of medical devices and life saving equipment of leading and small manufacturers. The product include x-ray machines and medical equipment components. The test facilities, which are under installation, include equipment for comprehensive testing to conform to different safety standards.
The company expects the contribution of business from medical equipment devices to be 10 per cent by end of 2004 to its turnover, which was disclosed.
UL is an independent "not-for-profit" organization engaged in Product Safety and Quality Certification worldwide and has been testing products a for 110 years now.
UL is considered one of the main architects of the U.S. safety standards. It has developed over 900 product safety standards, and participants in national and international Standards setting bodies.
[Ref : Pharmabiz
Hospital Review Oct. 1/2003]
New
Technique for Angiography and Angioplasty
The Ahmedabad based Krishna Heart Institute
(KHI) has forged an alliance with New York based St Vincent Hospital and Medical Centre for technology transfer and detailed research in area of angiography and angioplasty through trans radial route.
As per the arrangement between the two institutions, Krishna Heart Institute, which has developed the radial artery technique, will provide technical and research based support to the St Vincent Hospital.
Mr. Chokshi said that KHI, which provide total cardiac management, has developed trans radial technique for angiography and angioplasty through the wrist artery method that is claimed to be very convivent to cardiac patients.
Dr. Tejas Patel, who has established this system and is a one of directors of KHI, said this technique was applied to over 5,000 cardiac patients. KHI is also talking with different hospitals and institutions in UK, Germany and Japan to roll out the concept of radial technology.
[Ref : Economic Times
Nov. 18/2003]
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