Domestic Medical Equipment are encouraged in Two sessions

Domestic Medical Equipment are encouraged in Two sessions

High-end medical devices are occupied by foreign brands

sparked heated debate

At the 2022 National Two Sessions held recently, Yang Jiefu, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former director of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine of Beijing Hospital, proposed that the proportion of imported high-end medical devices currently used in major tertiary hospitals is too high, and independent innovation and research and development are still needed. Make great efforts to combine production, education and research.

Yang Jiefu pointed out that at present, it is a common phenomenon in domestic medical and clinical aspects: “The top three hospitals can say that high-end equipment (such as CT, MRI, angiography, echocardiography, etc.) There are too few autonomous products, far less than others such as aerospace and so on.”

At present, the vast majority of high-end medical equipment in my country are occupied by foreign brands, about 80% of CT machines, 90% of ultrasonic instruments, 85% of inspection instruments, 90% of magnetic resonance equipment, 90% of electrocardiographs, and 90% of high-end physiological equipment. Recorders, 90% or more of the cardiovascular field (such as angiography machines, echocardiography, etc.) are imported products.

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Distribute special investment in many aspects

Encourage innovation in high-end medical equipment

First, The reason is that the first is that my country’s medical devices have a relatively short development time, and there is a huge gap with some powerful European and American foreign-funded giants. The technology and quality are not as good as those of Europe and the United States. They can only target the middle and low-end fields, and there are many and scattered situations. .

Second, my country still relies on imports for many core components, raw materials, and high-end medical equipment, and the core technologies are also mastered by foreign countries. The loss and replacement of domestic equipment due to quality problems is almost the same as the imported price, which makes imported equipment easier to choose.

Third, almost all medical students are exposed to imported equipment when they are studying. I have to admit that the medical field not only relies on the professional ability of doctors as the core technology, but also pays more attention to the equipment used by doctors.

Finally, imported equipment is more trustworthy for patients and their families.

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//1. Support product development

In 2015, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Food and Drug Administration, the Ministry of Health and other departments, organized the public welfare industry scientific research projects managed by 13 departments including the National Key Basic Research and Development Program and the National High-tech Research and Development Program managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The integration has formed a national key R&D plan.

It has also launched pilot projects related to high-end medical devices, including “digital diagnosis and treatment equipment”, “biomedical material research and development and tissue and organ repair and replacement”.

//2. Speed ​​up product launch

In order to focus on speeding up the listing efficiency of medical devices, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the “Special Approval Procedures for Innovative Medical Devices” in 2014, and revised it for the first time in 2018.

Special approval channels are set up for medical devices that have invention patents, are technologically pioneered in my country, and are internationally advanced, and have significant clinical application value.

As of today, my country has approved 148 innovative medical device products.

//3. Encourage domestic purchases

In recent years, when purchasing medical equipment, primary medical and health institutions in various provinces have made it clear that only domestic products are required, and imports are refused.

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In December last year, the Hebei Government Procurement Network disclosed that the Renqiu Municipal Health Bureau’s service capacity improvement medical equipment procurement project for primary medical institutions, and the winning products were all domestic equipment.

The procurement budget exceeds 19.5 million yuan, and the products include automatic blood flow analyzer, automatic biochemical analyzer, color Doppler ultrasound diagnostic instrument, digital X-ray photography system, ECG monitor, root canal ultrasound system, etc. Hundreds of medical devices.

In February of this year, Ganzhou City Public Resource Trading Center released a project bidding information. The Quannan County Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Jiangxi Province purchased a batch of medical equipment, including suspended DR, mammography, color Doppler ultrasound, monitor, defibrillator , anesthesia machine, nucleic acid extraction instrument and other 82 kinds of medical equipment, with a total budget of more than 28 million, and it is also clear that only domestic products are required.


Post time: May-13-2022