Recently according to experts, India has had the opportunity to become a world leader in health tech, with the vision of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. Within the last five years, India has seen extreme growth in robotic surgery and robotic surgery will be the future. says Sudhish Srivastava, Chairman and CEO of SS Innovations in India. He attributed the increased adoption to patients accepting the measures because of less risk of post-surgery infections, faster recovery, and shorter hospital stays. The company has produced the only and first indigenous mantra robotic system that is very affordable and highly advanced. India has a high opportunity to become a world leader mainly because the system is affordable. It is a model for many countries that such things can be accomplished even in a developing economy and a very large population base.
Sabine Kapasi, a gynecologist and a public health professional also called to increase focus on public health infrastructure, mostly in the rural spaces and primary health systems. This focus should be towards tech enablement for some of these primary and community wellness exercises, where we add devices, IoT networks, as well as software systems, which presently help to build better wellness for the public at large.
Dr. Sabine and the managing director of Enira Consulting added that continuous electronic health records as well as personalized, secure solutions in healthcare are going to be the framework in digital public infrastructure that all of the solutions are built around. The expert called for upskilling of ASHA workers and also for increasing the amount of the frontline healthcare workforce, which includes nurses. The Chairman of, the Medical Technology Association of India (MTAI) Pavan Choudary praised the government for connecting both the global and the local currents optimally in the MedTech sector.
