Pakistan will now produce medical equipments locally: Fawad

ISLAMABAD (92 News) - Minister for Science Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said a unit to produce medical equipment in the country locally has been established in Faisalabad Industrial Zone. In a tweet on Sunday, Fawad Chaudhry said local manufacturing of all this equipment would greatly reduce medical device imports worth Rs1.4 billion. "We will now produce Injections, Canolas, Xray Machines, Heart stents, Dialysis machines in Pakistan," he added.

فیصل آباد انڈسٹریل زون میں دو سو ایکڑ پر میڈیکل آلات بنانےکا زون قائم کیا ہے اس سے 1.4 ارب ڈالر کی میڈیکل آلات کی امپورٹس جو ہم کرتے ہیں بہت کم ہو جائیں گی، سرنج، سوئیاں، Canolas, Xray Machines, Heart stunts , Dialysis machines ہم پاکستان میں بنائیں گے, اگلا زون سیالکوٹ ہو گا

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) September 27, 2020

Earlier, Fawad Chaudhry had vowed to make Islamabad Pakistan’s first city where transport will be fully electric. While addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Fawad Chaudhry had said that the federal government would import 120 electric buses this year, and local assembling of battery powered buses would start next year.