ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry on Sunday announced the successful setting up of a medical equipment manufacturing zone in Faisalabad.
In a tweet, the federal minister said that the medical equipment manufacturing zone has been established on 200 acres in Faisalabad Industrial Zone.
“This zone will focus on manufacturing syringes, needles, canolas, x-ray machines, heart stunts, dialysis machines etc. The local manufacturing of all this equipment would reduce medical device imports worth Rs1.4 billion,” the minister said.