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‘Medical park’ near Chennai soon

NEW DELHI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday said the Government would soon set up a “medical park” — first of its kind — near Chennai to enable the health industry to manufacture medical equipment on a large scale.

The 200-acre park, to be set up at Chengalpattu, will be one of the many the Health Ministry is planning in the country. It will be a vaccine and medical devices park, he told reporters at the launch of a joint venture between Trivitron, a Chennai-based medical equipment company, and Japan’s Aloka for manufacturing high technology ultrasound equipment in India.

Talking about the joint venture, he said such moves would also help bring down the cost of treatment. He had requested the Finance and Commerce Ministries to provide subsidies for setting up such parks.

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