"Domestic medical equipment industry in the global medical device market share of less than 3%, with China's huge consumer market of medical equipment out of proportion." Shanxi Province food and drug administration said a staff member.
According to introducing, medical equipment industry is the emerging industry in our country, both production and research and development are far cannot satisfy the market demand, especially in high-end products is still dependent on imports. Currently use high frequency of a few big medical institutions, such as C T, nuclear magnetic inspection equipment, biochemical analyzer and colour to exceed the basic are imported products, such as other domestic medical device products account for only about sixty percent of the total domestic demand.
Reporters learned that not only in provincial hospitals, municipal hospitals in Shanxi Province, all kinds of hospital, Seattle grace mercy west hospital, are imported medical equipment. Even in the most county-level hospitals, medical apparatus and instruments also labeled as a "tag" in import.
"The need to the hospital, patients need to import medical instruments have 'spread'." Shanxi Province food and drug administration said a staff member. According to his introduction, a good performance of domestic products in the national 3 armour hospital almost no market, also can only go township hospitals, "lower path".
Medical equipment and high precision end imports phenomenon is very common in medical institutions. Reporters visited chongqing part 3 armour hospital found that almost all high-end medical equipment is imported from Japan, the United States, Germany products. In addition to the 3 armour hospital, some county-level hospitals, basic-level hospitals also find domestic products.
Chongqing city people's hospital clinical laboratory Yubei District six sets of high-end medical equipment, all the domestic. The division said Mr. Zhou, director of the "hospital basic does not consider domestic products in terms of high-end products." Commissioner of the food and drug administration medical device regulatory Li Xiaoping says, medical equipment industry in chongqing in 2010 exports accounted for about 30% of the enterprise's annual output value, export-oriented development is obvious. Medical institutions in our country is outstanding, the phenomenon of domestic products do not agree with local companies to expand the domestic market.