MSME Minister Narayan Rane on Thursday launched a new platform India Health Dialogue (IHD) to enhance MSMEs in healthcare with advanced manufacturing capabilities and boost exports in order to promote self-reliance and reduce healthcare or medical imports in the country. IHD, said the MSME ministry in a statement, is a global “collaborative and stakeholders platform” by the India Chamber of Business and Commerce in partnership with the Indian Council of Medical Research, and Indian Medical Association; and supported by the ministry “to build a robust ecosystem to revolutionize health and health care sector for the future.”
Addressing the gathering, Rane said the ministry has “identified health as a target sector for import substitution and is partnering with IHD for structured interventions to promote advance manufacturing capabilities among MSMEs for achieving Atma Nirbhar Bharat and export promotion in the health domain.”
Experts at the launch of the platform, according to the statement, noted that cutting-edge technologies are going to dominate the future of India and the Ministry’s role in building an advanced manufacturing ecosystem is critical in making India both Atma Nirbhar Bharat and making India manufacturing hub in health and healthcare.
